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Fromms Leben und Werk
(1991)
Aus psychologiegeschichtlicher Perspektive werden kommunikationstheoretische Elemente in der analytischen Sozialpsychologie Erich FROMMs (1900 bis 1980) analysiert. Dabei stehen drei Aspekte von FROMMs Werk im Mittelpunkt: (1) Konzeption der analytischen Sozialpsychologie während der Zeit der Zugehörigkeit zum Institut für Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, (2) theoretische Entwicklungen im Werk >Die Furcht vor der Freiheit< aus dem Jahr 1941, (3) FROMMs konzeptionelle Erweiterung der therapeutischen Praxis. Ein zentrales Merkmal der analytischen Sozialpsychologie wird in ihrer funktionalistischen Argumentation zur Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Historischem Materialismus und Psychoanalyse gesehen, die von FROMM im Rahmen einer anthropologisch-ethisch fundierten Charakterologie ausdifferenziert wird. Ausserdem wird gezeigt, daß FROMMs Ausführungen zum Bedürfnis der >Bezogenheit auf andere< die Möglichkeit bieten, kommunikativ strukturierte Interaktionen in Familie und Gesellschaft zu dechiffrieren und die enge Verzahnung von primären und sekundären Sozialisationsbedingungen sichtbar zu machen.
>The Critical Theory’s contribution to cope with the crisis of contemporary society<: The crisis of industrial society is analysed and clarified by the interdiciplinary categories of the critical theory of the Frankfurt school. This article will attempt to make evident, that in the case of economic, ecological, legitimatorical and psychological problems analysis would fall short of its aim, if it omitted the definition of >humanism< and a utopic model of subjectivity. The utopic messianic expression of hope for the individual is elaborated, even under alienated social structures, in the oeuvre of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse and Fromm. The problem of negativ thinking in opposition to an aspired positive utopia is discussed in order to create an theory of society-related, emancipated acting, which is based on educational aims and political alternatives. Fromms significance is demonstrated in connection with the oeuvre of the Frankfurt school without neglecting the differences. It is the author’s aim to define Fromm’s Analytic Social Psychology as one amongst several equally traditional lines of the Frankfurt school, by using theoretic examples. Differences, parallels and points of contact will be emphasized for a productive dialogue within these different traditional lines of thought of critical theory. A promising possibility for discussion, especially in the comparison between Marcuse and Fromm is indicated here.
Attentively reading Ferenczi's works and his scientific and ?auto-analytic? correspondence with Sigmund Freud, the author insists on the important contribution of the Hungarian psychoanalyst concerning the contemporary matter of the complex relations between biology and psychoanalysis: Ferenczi considered in fact that the unconscious was an occult phenomenon allowing an intersubjective thought-transference and was desperately searching for the material evidence of traumatic scenes and life events, reducing the psychical reality to body-writing. Freud was contrarily and prudently convinced that the unconscious processes were dependent on the materiality of the registration of the signifier, constituted by corporeal traces, but which had to be understood more in relation to language and speech phenomena than the reality of fallacious sensations.
Leben und Werk Erich Fromms
(2001)
Kreativität und Schule
(1999)
Martin Buber und Erich Fromm
(2004)
>The Humanist Critique of School Education<: In a dialectical intellectual process, this critique of school education succeeds in elucidating those typical influence patterns that go into forming social character – which precede the school stage even. Not only diminished authority but a loss of psychic roots testify to the contradictory nature of children’s liberation. The school’s emphasis on individualization means that pupils are educated with the needs of the marketplace in mind. In the school itself, the production of >marketing< character structures is promoted by institutional mechanisms which, in essence, compel pupils to adapt to an authoritarian and hierarchical educational theory. As a counterweight to this >colonization< of schoolchildren, discussion here focuses on key proposals of how the school may have its humanity restored. Paramount here would be a new role for teachers, one involving restructured cognition processes, revised educational programs, and altered self-perspectives in pedagogical psychology. Also needed is a reform of instructional forms so as to make them more living, adventurous, and socially responsive. Growing educationaldifficulties also render essential an extension of counseling and supervision in matters related to pedagogical psychology. Finally, a number of leading categories are developed within which the humanization of the school can best proceed.
>Does there exist a new Authoritarian Character?<: The current xenophobic violent acts in Germany have gained an new aura of sensitivity since reunification. Historical experience during the Weimar Republic, together with the strengthening of the National Socialism at that time would suggest the necessity to draw parallels to the current situation. The theories of the Frankfurt School regarding the authoritarian character according to Theodor W. Adorno and Erich Fromm are summarised. In addition, the current (empirical) theories of Heitmeyer, Maaz, Oesterreich and Fritzsche/Knepper to explain right-wing extremism, are analysed with regard to their sociopsychological, explanatory potential. At this point the differences in the political cultures in the reunified Germany are also discussed. The post-war waves of modernisation and individualisation would also suggest the necessity to return to the theory of narcissism. The >Macciavellian< strategies of interaction are taken to illustrate, that a new fear and escapism from freedom can lead to a modern authoritarianism of non-integrated individuals.
Humanismus und Gesellschaft
(1990)
Lehrergesundheit
(2008)
Glück & Glas
(2013)
Einführung
(2006)