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Love is an Art [爱,是一门艺术]
(2008)
Classical Psychoanalysis and Politics. The article is concerned with psychoanalysis and its application to politics. First part focuses on social thinking of Sigmund Freud. Second part examines political insights of Carl Gustav Jung. Third part examines the social theory of Erich Fromm. Forth part calls attention to political opinions of Herbert Marcuse. The article highlights a traditional Freudian approach to society and politics.
The paper analyses the Freud’s dilemma in his theory of civilization, on this basis, finds the course of problem. In this process, we begin with the two basic concepts, namely civilization and instinct. In Freud’s theory, the civilization is existed as the performance of difference between people and animals. It not only include the knowledge and ability that formed in dealing with the relationship between human and nature, but also include the various rules and regulations between peoples. Instinct, as a core concept in his theoretical system, is inherited from the theory of biological evolution. He believes that the instinct urged the organism returning to the previous state, and eventually, he divided the instinct into instinct for life and death instinct, and believed it has fundamental confliction between the two instincts. When Freud’s perspective turns to the field of the social life, he also looks at modern civilization from the perspective of instinct, and believes that modern civilization oppresses the satisfaction of instinct and meets the demands of instinct at the same time. But, he does not completely abandon the idea of civilization or instinct, he thinks that civilization can oppress instinct appropriately. However, the oppression what degree is appropriate, Freud does not give a clear standard. So, in fact, the problem he encountered has not been fully resolved. Aiming at the difficulties encountered by Freud, other scholars such as Marcuse and Fromm have tried to solve this problem. But, their theories have their own shortcomings. Marcuse does not fully understand Freud’s problem, he is more concerned about Freud’s instinct for life. In fact, Freud is more attention about death instinct. As for Fromm, he integrates the spirit of Marxism and psychoanalysis, in the face of the difficulties encountered by Freud, he thinks that the problem can disappear with the development of society. So, he gives us only a hope, a utopian existence. So, we should explore the root cause of the dilemma encountered by Freud, and analyze whether the dilemma exist or not in actually.– When analyzing Freud’s theory of civilization, we finds that to imagine a non-oppressed civilization, the biggest obstacle we faced is the death instinct.– So, the question is weather the death instinct is necessary. Karen·Horney raises doubts in this regard. Through her own analysis, she thinks that it is not necessary to mention death instinct, for, there is no full evidence to certificate it, and it also contradict with the reality. However, the death instinct, after all, as a real theory is putted forward by Freud, and when the theory take the great dilemma to him, he still use it. So, it was necessary to explore the theoretical way what his death instinct produced. Freud is impacted by the theory of evolution deeply, and he introduces the concept of instinct as a biological field into the psychological field. In this course, he also introduce the logic of evolution into psychological field. So, the things what are established in biological field are similarly established in psychological field. When he discovers that the people have the tendency to repeat previous activities, he considers that it represents a kind of instinctive tendency also. On this basis, he puts forward the death instinct that is, return to the previous inorganic state. However, when he looks at human civilization, he is still from the view of biology, and considers that people and animals have no essential difference. This is a non-scientific idea .It has been recognized by many scholars that it has essential difference between people and animals. Therefore, the study of human civilization should be from the fundamental characters of human.– In the history of Western thoughts, it has been existed the concept of rational person religionary person and biological person. Cassirer puts forward the concept of symbolic person, on the basis of analyzing the limitation of these concepts, and it mainly emphasize the higher level ability of free creating what human has. This is consistent with the Marx’s incisive elucidation. So, >people are symbolic animals< seizes the people’s fundamental characters. From the concept of >human is symbolic animals<, human has the ability of creating and using the symbol. This is the universal dynamic creativity what human has. In the course of creating and using symbol, human has the ability of giving the value to symbols freely and dynamicly, so the symbol system is a free system also. Civilization is a development course of self-determination. It develops and heritages through the symbol media. Thus, the development of civilization is a free, dynamic process also. So the development of civilization not only does not oppress anything, but also is not hampered by other things. Thus, in Freud’s view, the course of the development of civilization does not oppress instinct. [Translation: www.cnki.net, 6/2023]
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Bedeutung der Entfremdung und die Problematik der Identität in der modernen Industriegesellschaft. Es geht um die Entfremdung im Dasein des Menschen und den Verlust an der Beziehung zwischen >Ich< und >Welt<.
Erstens sind nach Auffassung in diesem Beitrag die moderne Gesellschaft und die Entfremdung, Begriff und Ursache der Entfremdung, Erkenntnis der Entfremdungsstruktur sowie Verdinglichung, Konfliktstruktur und Zerstörung des Subjekts unserer Zeit eingeprägt. Im Hinblick auf theoretische Forschungen diskutieren wir Hegel und Marx vom philosophischen Gesichtspunkt, Melvin Seeman vom soziologischen Gesichtspunkt, und Erich Fromm vom psychologischen Gesichtspunkt aus. Im Allgemeinen lässt sich sagen, dass die in die industriellen Strukturen eingebundenen Menschen an den Leistungsanforderungen zerbrechen können. Die Leistungssteigerung in sämtlichen Facetten betrifft nicht nur den Arbeiter und Manager, sie betrifft auch den Autor, weil Umsatzsteigerung in jedem Betrieb Pflicht ist. In einer von Nützlichkeit und Gleichgültigkeit beherrschten Gesellschaft steht der Mensch im Gegensatz zur Welt und zu sich selbst. Zweitens werden in Bezug auf >Die Verwandlung< Kafkas die Entfremdung des Menschen und der Verlust der Identität im literarischen Sinnbild angesprochen. Für den heutigen Menschen ist die Zerrissenheit seines Lebens und seiner Welt charakteristisch. >Die Verwandlung< stellt die Gestalt des heutigen Menschen bloß, der an dem großen Mechanismus der heutigen industriellen Gesellschaft jämmerlich zu Grunde geht. Es läge zunächst nahe, die Verwandlung vom Menschen ins Tier als Identitätsverlust aufzufassen. Denn die Verwandlung ins Tierhafte bedeutet zwar den Verlust der Sprache, die auf tierische Laute reduziert ist, einen Wechsel in der Nahrungsaufnahme und in einem räumlichen Sichfortbewegen, also eine Reduktion der vitalen Organisation auf eine rein tierische Stufe; aber das Bewußtsein des Verwandelten ist ein rein menschliches, und er ist überdies durchaus imstande, menschliche Vorgänge und Gespräche aus seiner Umgebung aufzunehmen. Gregor ist zwar in ein widerwärtigrs Tier verwandelt, aber er hört darum nicht auf, Gregor zu sein. Mit der >Verwandlung< bleibt Kafka in der Ausweglosigkeit des mytischen Kreises gefangen, wo Opfer und Selbstopfer ununterscheidbar werden. Kafka sah sein >Ich< im Unheil und meinte zu erkennen, dass einzig im Leiden des Todes ein Zustand des Heils erreicht werden könne. So war es sein Bestreben, dichtend den Tod herbeizuführen, um auf diese Weise sein Seelenheil zu erringen.
This study was to find out how the unity of will could be realized through sex in the Korean novels which were written in the special period of the 1920's through 1930's which were under Japanese colonial rule and modernization. Erich Fromm's philosophical speculation was a good criterion to clarify this kind of process. The right way to forward the truth of unity was the very matured love that Erich Fromm talked about. Matured love is to feel the unity in the circumstances the parties respect another's individuality. However, at that time, many people were exposed to poverty due to Japanese colonial policies. Under these circumstances, prostitution, one way of solution out of poverty, was mixed with the desire lay behind unconsciousness and this resulted in destruction in the end. Characters of Boknea in Gamja (Potato) and Chunho's wife in the novel of Sonagi (A sudden shower) were created at that time. Modern women and men could not be free from sex ideology deeply rooted in traditional Confucianism and predominance of men. Therefore, in the process of moving forward to the true unity, some people fell in love with in the novels. Some examples are that Yeonsil who fell in love in the novel of >Kim Yeonsil Jeon< and Young Chae who decided to commit suicide because of purity complex in the novel of >Mujeong<. Even, there appeared a character like Soonok in the novel who sanctify sex. However, they found their identity in the end and their actions were proved as transitional phenomenon taking place between the gap of unity and want by showing their will of true unity. Also, there is a character in the novel who agrees the process of unity based on respect for the other sex. Youngshin and Donghyuk in the novel of >Sangroksu< are those examples. It can be said that the love realized by them shows the truth of unity.
ВЪВЕДЕНИЕ НА СЪСТАВИТЕЛЯ
(2008)
Buddhism and psychoanalysis have long been accused of privileging internal transformation over active social and political engagement. Yet, as representatives of non-theistic and secular paths toward the realization of human potential, both traditions embody an important aspect of the Romantic quest for progress, that is, the transcendence of internal and external division. Insight into the Buddhist notion of self as ontologically interdependent and non-dualistic optimally yields not only personal transformation but also an expanded circle of identification, with important implications for social responsibility. Erich Fromm, in interpreting the influential work of D. T. Suzuki, represents a historical and philosophical link between the psychoanalytic legacy of social responsibility and the Buddhist concept of Enlightenment.
This chapter reviews the work of Critical Theory (CT) to assess the orientation of business to spirituality. It has been mistakenly assumed that, given its Marxist heritage, CT is against spirituality. However, in the work of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Fromm of the Frankfurt School of CT, there are instances where they discuss their own religious and spiritual orientations. I would like to suggest some points of convergence between CT and spirituality. In particular, I want to extend the implications of the CT approaches to spirituality in business.