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Is Love Curative?
(2010)
Response to Commentary
(2010)
Returning to Freud
(2010)
Aspects of Psychodynamic Neuropsychiatry I: Episodic Memory, Transference, and the Oddball Paradigm
(2010)
Prefacione, 10 pp.
(2010)
Trauma and the Avoidant Client. Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing. New York (Norton) 2010.
(2010)
Laudation for Noam Chomsky
(2010)
Erich Fromm and the Public Intellectual in Recent American History: An Interview with Larry Friedman
(2010)
James Joyce represents one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century and an adherent of the great tradition of humanistic ethics. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine, primarily in the light of humanistic ethics, the process of the artistic coming of age of the main character of Portrait, Stephen Dedalus. The basic principles of Humanism tend to view man in his physical and spiritual totality, believing that man’s fundamental aim is to >be man< and that the major prerequisite for achieving that aim is to be >man for himself<. Stephen Dedalus epitomizes Fromm’s type of man of productive character, in the sense that he gradually frees himself from the >nets< of Irish society represented in the form of constraints of nationality, family, and religion which he sees as threatening forces bent upon annihilating his own individuality. Stephen Dedalus manages to accomplish true affirmation of his individuality only through artistic vocation. Moreover, it could be argued that Stephen D. (Joyce himself) stands for the epitome of a genuine intellectual living in self-imposed exile and who is, according to the words of philosopher Julien Benda, a guardian and a bearer of independent thought who is loyal solely to truth.
Welcome address
(2010)
According to Erich Fromm and a relational psychoanalytic approach, changing economic and social requirements always impact human beings and their psychic structure. Because globalization leads particularly to a blurring of boundaries and limitations, the formation of a new character orientation that is driven to construct reality anew without limitations can be observed as a reaction in progress. The pathogenic effects of globalization can be studied through the analysis of this new character formation and the uncovering of repressed, unconscious feelings that characterize the new personality type, especially in regard to their sense of identity, their way of relating to others, and their defacto loss of ego strength – in contrast to the enacted >ego unlimited<. Finally, some aspects of transference and countertransference, as well as some particular defense reactions with which we psychoanalysts are confronted in the treatment of patients suffering from the pathogenic effects of globalization, will be discussed.
Foreword
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Foreword
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Prize awarding
(2010)
Laudation for Noam Chomsky
(2010)
For most readers Erich Fromm does not require an introduction. His writings have been translated into several languages, and his thoughts have been popularized in various types of media. This review provides a brief biographical notation for those readers not thoroughly familiar with him. This book is edited by Rainer Funk, a psychoanalyst in private practice in the city of Tübingen, Germany. He is Fromm’s sole literary executor and owner of his library, has edited posthumously several books based on Fromm’s writings, and has written and edited books about Fromm’s life and work. The present volume includes two previously unpublished articles by Fromm on therapeutic practice, and the rest is a collection of writings solicited from Fromm’s former students, supervisees, colleagues, and friends, who provide anecdotal and personal information as well as comments on Frommian therapeutic style and technique. Although Funk’s book provides only glimpses of Fromm’s main criticisms of classical psychoanalysis and his social ideas, it will be of interest to clinicians and laypeople alike who are willing to become acquainted with one of the most important thinkers of the second half of the 20th century.
The decline of the Liberal Arts in the 21st century is rooted in late 20th century trends, including grade inflation, the decline of rational authority, the rise of anonymous authority, and consumerism, which abets the tendency to elevate the pursuit of students’ >self-esteem< above scholarly rigor. While the Left and the Right are apt to blame their ideological opponents, both share some responsibility for this state of af-fairs, which can only be remedied if they own up to their own erroneous oversights, and agree to work together.
This article describes three attitudes toward psychic pain and suffering, and their clinical implications are explored and illustrated. When analyst and patient differ fundamentally in their understanding of the place of suffering in psychic life, treatment destructive clashes may result. The attitude that pain should be reduced as quickly as possible has a significant impact on the analyst's focus in treatment, most especially on the timing of interpretations of defense. A different orientation is that pain is an inevitable part of human experience and is best accepted rather than avoided. A third possibility embraces suffering as not only unavoidable, but as a primary source of wisdom and personal identity.
From the moment man first learned how to say >no<, human history and the relational celebration between the intrapsychic and the intersubjective was set in motion. Liberation does not permit any type of regression. When an adult individual goes in search of symbiosis with nature, he reveals his pathology. Intrapsychicity, and with it, intersubjectivity, is broken.