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This volume by one of the US's foremost commentators on continental politics and philosophy offers provocative and unique interpretations of critical theory's most important representatives and seeks to reconstruct and assess critical theory's radical project. Specifically, the book aims to reinvigorate the interdisciplinary character of critical theory's original formulations by forging links between the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, politics, anthropology, history, and theology. The origins of critical theory are traced to the >Western Marxism< of Karl Korsch, who advocated a value-laden, critical, and interdisciplinary approach to social issues. A reading of Georg Lukac's writings on reification and alienation discusses why he failed to develop a genuine theory of praxis. Also treated are: the cosmopolitan utopianism of Ernst Block, Max Horkheimer's political and theoretical engagements, the alleged affinity of Martin Heidegger's thought with national socialism, and the messianic materialism of Walter Benjamin. Reflections also are offered on Bertolt Brecht's and Ernst Block's roles in the expressionism debate of the 1930s, Erich FROMM's experiences in the US and his perspective on socialism, the radicalism of Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action. The book is presented in 15 Chpts: (1) Introduction. (2) Karl Korsch: Western Marxism and the Origins of Critical Theory. (3) Philosophical Anticipations: A Commentary on the >Reification< Essay of Georg Lukacs. (4) Utopian Projections: In Honor of Ernst Bloch. (5) Horkheimer's Road. (6) Ontology and Its Discontents: Unorthodox Remarks on the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. (7) Reclaiming the Fragments: On the Messianic Materialism of Walter Benjamin. (8) Political Aesthetics in Retrospect: Reflections on the Expressionism Debate and Its Contemporary Relevance. (9) Dialectics at a Standstill: A Methodological Inquiry into the Philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno. (10) FROMM in America. (11) Remembering Marcuse. (12) The Anthropological Break: Herbert Marcuse and the Radical Imagination. (13) Left Instrumentalism: A Critique of Analytic and Rational Choice Marxism. (14) Jurgen Habermas and the Language of Politics. (15) Points of Departure: Sketches for a Critical Theory with Public Aims. References are encompassed in Chpt Notes. W. Howard
In this passionate volume, Sandra Buechler introduces Erich Fromm's groundbreaking contributions to psychoanalysis, sociology, philosophy, political action, and social criticism. Buechler explores how Fromm's thinking and interdisciplinary vision are able to frame discussions of dilemmas in contemporary society. She offers a comprehensive biography of Fromm, before delving into his role as analyst, author, activist, sociologist and philosopher. From her own experience as a psychoanalyst, and from the testimony of Fromm's many ardent followers, Buechler illuminates Fromm's capacity to inspire. She considers how Fromm's writing equips students, beginning clinicians and more experienced professionals to understand what can give meaning to their efforts on behalf of troubled individuals, their riven communities, and the wider world. Assuming no prior knowledge of Fromm's work, this books offers students in clinical and social psychology, sociology, and philosophy a vital insight into his theoretical contributions. It will also be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychologists and social workers.
In this comprehensive volume, the first of a two-volume set, the development of ideas linking psychopathology, diagnosis, and personality is traced from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the contemporary world. The understanding of personality structure throughout this broad historical context, including contributions of early pioneers, Freud, post-Freudians, typologists, ego psychologists, and object relations theorists, is reviewed and embedded in this historical perspective. / Volume I assesses each historical period in terms of its impact on the understanding of psychopathology. In addition, each period is identified in terms of its philosophical underpinnings. Convenient summaries and tables provide the reader with a basic view of the salient contributions of each era regarding the vicissitudes of personality and psychopathology. / A central concern in Volume I is the delineation of the two major competing themes regarding psychopathology which emerge throughout history. These competing themes are pointed out and their shifting emphasis explored from era to era. The first theme views the development of psychopathology in relation to both intrapersonal phenomena and interpersonal dynamics; the Secon theme relates psychopathology to biological and organic factors. The contributions, contrasts, and integration of these perspectives are presented and related to a broad spectrum of contemporary thinking regarding personality, psychopathology, and diagnosis. – Index: Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Antiquity – The historical roots of psychopathology and diagnosis – Hipprocrates: The first classifier – The later Greek philosophers – The Roman period Part II: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance – The Middle Ages – The Renaissance Part III: The modern world – The modern world and the study of psychopathology – The age of enlightenment: The eighteenth century – Nineteenth-century interest in the nature of psychopathology Part IV: Nosological systems and the appearance of Sigmund Freud – The reemergence of the physical approach and early classification schemes – Precursors to Freudian psychology and the dynamic understanding of psychopathology – Sigmund Freud Part V: Typologies and followers of Freud – Typologies – Freud's personality types – Followers of Freud: Horney, FROMM, and Erickson Adler and Sullivan Part VI: Contemporary views: Ego psychology and object relations – Ego psychology – Object relations – Object relations and ego psychology: Comparisons and combinations – Conclusion References and suggested readings. (from the jacket)
The Legacy of Erich Fromm, Cambridge (Mass.) and London (Harvard University Press) 1991, 260 p.
(1991)
This paper addresses the integration of community psychology and psychoanalytic theory through an exploration of transference-countertransference interactions and enactments that occurred in the context of a community intervention. The author, a team member during a four-year community revitalization intervention in South Central Los Angeles, calls this approach community analysis and offers a way to conceptualize the transference-countertransference themes that developed there in the interactive patterns between community residents and the intervention staff. Examples are given to illustrate how the interactive patterns represented deeply entrenched transference dilemmas that residents enacted with external power sources, including the intervention team, and how this understanding provided necessary leverage for growth and change in the community.
Love. Its Forms, Dimensions, and Paradoxes, Basingstoke et al. (Palgrave Macmillan) 1998, 239 pp.
(1998)
The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties. It seeks the views of some writers who have suggested some distinctive solutions to the existential problems that love poses in the face of its obstacles: Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran. [Taken from Publisher's Website: http://www.palgrave.com/]
To provide a better understanding of the diverse interpretations of human behavior and the dynamic forces within personality, this work explores the major theories of personality. It covers the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler; of Pavlov, Hull, Skinner, Dollard and Miller, and Cattell; of Horney, Sullivan, FROMM, and Erickson; of Lewin and Allport, of Husserl, Combs and Snygg, Rogers, Maslow, Goldstein, and Frankl. Each chapter contains a study guide to review the salient points of the personality theory discussed and suggestions to apply these concepts to professional counseling practice. Lending a degree of concreteness to the abstract ideas are explanatory drawings used throughout the text--a feature particularly benefiting visually-oriented readers. – Index: Preface – A dynamic view of personality theories – Psychoanalytic theory: Sigmund Freud – Analytic theory: Carl Gustav Jung – Individual psychology: Alfred Adler – Interpersonal theories: Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan – Psychosocial theories: Erich FROMM, Erik Erikson – Learning theory of Dollard and Miller – Trait and factor theory: Raymond B. Cattell – Field theory: Kurt Lewin – Systematic eclecticism: Gordon W. Allport – Phenomenology and existentialism – Self-theory: Carl R. Rogers – Holistic theory: Kurt Goldstein, Abraham H. Maslow – Logotherapy: Viktor E. Frankl – Personality theories in perspective. (From the cover)
Carl Goldberg asks how malevolent transformation of personality takes place. In-spired by Fromm's work on the origin of destructiveness, Goldberg builds on Fromm's observation that an evil character tends to develop gradually by a succes-sion of innumerable acts of inhumanity that are often rationalized and dismissed. Goldberg has found that the road that leads to sadism and cruelty is often paved by a history of shame and humiliation. Goldberg proposes stages of the sequential transformations of shame, humiliation, and rage that eventually lead to malevo-lence. He illustrates the theory with a very interesting case study. Goldberg's stages provide the basis for rich clinical exploration that could lead to a research agenda into the various possible pathways for the development of the malevolent personal-ity.
The Psychology of Collective Narcissism is a ground-breaking text that presents a new theory of collective narcissism, a belief that exaggerated greatness of one’s own group should be but is not sufficiently appreciated by others. The book presents this concept against the background of social identity theory and research. It explores antecedent as well as social and political consequences of collective narcissism. The author discusses how this burgeoning theory and research can help to elucidate a wide range of psychological dynamics involved in pressing societal issues, such as the declining appeal of democracy, increasing populism, decreasing social solidarity, increasing societal polarization and prejudice, intergroup hostility and political violence, social inequality, and fake news and belief in conspiracy theories. Also referring to societal problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, this highly topical work explores socially shared beliefs as risk factors when predicting responses to crises and highlights conditions in which collective narcissism can be expected. The author also reviews research on interventions reducing the link between collective narcissism, prejudice, and retaliatory intergroup hostility focusing on her recent research on mindfulness. This is a valuable read for academics and students in psychology and the social sciences, those interested in societal processes as well as professionals dealing with the impact of collective narcissism.
Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness. Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact of World War II and the Cold War on mental health, Halliwell moves from the influence of work, family, and growing up in the Eisenhower years to the critique of institutional practice and the search for alternative therapeutic communities during the 1960s. Blending a discussion of such influential postwar thinkers as Erich Fromm, William Menninger, Erving Goffman, Erik Erikson, and Herbert Marcuse with perceptive readings of a range of cultural text that illuminate mental health issues--among them Spellbound, Shock Corridor, Revolutionary Road, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden--this compelling study argues that the postwar therapeutic revolutions closely interlink contrasting discourses of authority and liberation. [Taken from Publisher’s Website: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu]
What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the face of modern America in ways few people recognize. So argues Andrew Heinze, who reveals in rich and unprecedented detail the extent to which Jewish values, often in tense interaction with an established Christian consensus, shaped the country's psychological and spiritual vocabulary. >Jews and the American Soul< is the first book to recognize the central role Jews and Jewish values have played in shaping American ideas of the inner life. It overturns the widely shared assumption that modern ideas of human nature derived simply from the nation's Protestant heritage. – Heinze marshals a rich array of evidence to show how individuals ranging from Erich Fromm to Ann Landers changed the way Americans think about mind and soul. The book shows us the many ways that Jewish thinkers influenced everything from the human potential movement and pop psychology to secular spirituality. It also provides fascinating new interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Western views of the psyche; the clash among Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish moral sensibilities in America; the origins and evolution of America's psychological and therapeutic culture; the role of Jewish women as American public moralists, and more. A must-read for anyone interested in the contribution of Jews and Jewish culture to modern America. [Taken from Publisher’s Website: http://press.princeton.edu/]
A first course on personality psychology should introduce students to a diversity of theoretical perspectives by which to understand why and how human beings behave as they do in the world. Accordingly, this third edition provides coverage of personality theories representing several different perspectives. In this way, we hope that students will gain an appreciation for the multiplicity of conceptual approaches that can be taken to the study of persons. The study of personality should likewise focus attention on the strategies and results of empirical research. With this in mind, we have updated and broadened our coverage of how researchers validate theoretical propositions through the process of scientific in-quiry. Finally, a basic textbook on personality should emphasize the practical applications of theoretical ideas. Toward this end, we have included numerous examples illustrating how major constructs and postulates found in the various approaches can be applied to everyday life. Our overall goal in writing the current edition is to help students achieve a more enlightened awareness of the many rich and fascinating conceptions of personality. Index: Preface – Psychology of personality: An introduction to the discipline – Research and assessment in personality psychology – The psychodynamic perspective in personality theory: Sigmund Freud – The psychodynamic perspective revised: Alfred Adler and Carl Jung – The ego psychology and related perspectives in personality theory: Erik Erikson, Erich FROMM, and Karen Horney – The dispositional perspective in personality theory: Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, and Hans Eysenck – The learning-behavioral perspective in personality theory: B. F. Skinner – The social cognitive perspective in personality theory: Albert Bandura and Julian Rotter – The cognitive perspective in personality theory: George Kelly – The humanistic perspective in personality theory: Abraham Maslow – The phenomenological perspective in personality theory: Carl Rogers – Personality psychology: New directions in the discipline – Acknowledgments – Indexes – Name index – Subject index.
This critical study attempts to determine the role of sexual and political identity in Klaus Mann’s works. By examining such recurrent thematic patterns as the work of art as progeny, supernatural births, the image of the writer as soldier and monk, or obsession with death, among others, the study finds in Klaus Mann a characteristic sense of >social self-identity.< This is the first book-length treatment of Mann’s fiction and non-fiction prose, drama, and diaries to show the interrelationship between his political development as an anti-fascist and his sexual identity as a gay writer. The theoretical approach to Mann’s works contrasts earlier twentieth-century conceptions of personal identity, articulated by such writers as Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, and Erich Fromm, with more recent thinking on identity questions. [Taken from Publisher’s Website: http://www.peterlang.com/]
In an era of environmental crises, geopolitical stresses, corporate misbehavior, and inequalities of wealth and power, a new moral vision for our world is vital. Klaus M. Leisinger, one of the world’s leading ethicists and experts in ethical business management offers an essential text for our times. This is a volume akin to Machiavelli’s The Prince, as it is a guidebook for leadership, but unlike Machiavelli, Leisinger teaches the leader how to find true purpose and value through leadership. Drawing upon his vast knowledge of philosophy and experience in global business, Leisinger offers an invaluable, persuasive, inspiring, and utterly practical guide for business with purpose in the 21st century. The timing is perfect. Leading CEOs in the U.S. Business Roundtable have finally acknowledged the social responsibility of the corporation. They will find no better roadmap to fulfilling that responsibility than Klaus Leisinger’s powerful text.
The controversial notion of >social character<, as applied to US society by Alexis de Tocqueville, David Riesman, Robert N. Bellah, and Daniel Bell, is reexamined and applied to Eastern Europe. What, it is asked, are the Eastern European >habits of the heart<, and are they conducive to democracy? Using as a starting point for conceptual analysis Dinko Tomasic's Personality and Culture in Eastern European Politics (1948), particular attention is paid to the themes of guilt, ambivalence, and mother-centeredness (from Erich FROMM) to explain some peculiarities in Eastern European social character. A connection is drawn between political and family institutions in Eastern Europe as being generally undemocratic.
In >The Frankfurt School on Religion<, Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and sophistication with which they engaged the core religious issues and major religious traditions.– Through a careful selection of writings from eleven prominent theorists, including several new and previously untranslated pieces from Leo Löwenthal, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jürgen Habermas, this volume provides much needed sources for religious leaders, philosophers, and social theorists as they grapple with the nature and functions of religion in the contemporary social, political, and economic landscape.– >The Frankfurt School on Religion< recovers the religious dimensions of the Frankfurt School, for too long sidelined or ignored, and offers new perspectives and insights necessary to the development of a fuller and more nuanced critical theory of society. Selections and essays from: Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Johann Baptist Metz, Jürgen Habermas, Helmut Peukert, Edmund Arens. [Routledge Website: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415966979]
The controversial notion of >social character<, as applied to US society by Alexis de Tocqueville, David Riesman, Robert N. Bellah, and Daniel Bell, is reexamined and applied to Eastern Europe. What, it is asked, are the Eastern European >habits of the heart<, and are they conducive to democracy? Using as a starting point for conceptual analysis Dinko Tomasic's Personality and Culture in Eastern European Politics (1948), particular attention is paid to the themes of guilt, ambivalence, and mother-centeredness (from Erich FROMM) to explain some peculiarities in Eastern European social character. A connection is drawn between political and family institutions in Eastern Europe as being generally undemocratic.
This book will first acquaint them (laypersons) with the major characteristics of the creative personality and the creative process. It will then critically discuss the theoretical ideas contributed by representatives of such traditions as psychoanalysis, existentialism, and scientific behaviorism. Thus it is intended first, for the >enlightened< lay person, be he or she a practicing professional in the arts or sciences, an interested observer, or an undergraduate student seeking that elusive diploma. It is also hoped, however, that trained philosophers and/or psychologists will find it informative (although they should be forewarned that at times the discussion may seem elementary), since these theoretical writings have not, to our knowledge, been previously brought together in this manner. In short, we unabashedly seek to provide what might pass for a >textbook< on the topic. – Index: Introduction – Part I: Problems and evidence – A problematic potpourri – Democracy and creativity – The >data< of creativity – The stages of the creative process – The data of creativity I: Some characteristics of creative persons – Methods of study – Personality characteristics – The data of creativity II: Complications – Fictional characteristics – Conceptual problems – he creative process I: Preparation and incubation – cubation/frustration – The creative process II: Inspiration and beyond – Verification/hypothesis testing – Part II: Theories of personal autonomy – Existential approaches I: Basic premises and Albert Camus – Existential approaches II: Jean-Paul Sartre – Part III: Theories of antecedent causation – Supernatural/theological approaches – Psychoanalytic approaches I: Sigmund Freud – Psychoanalytic approaches II: Jung and Rank – Psychoanalytic approaches III: Miscellaneous – Ernst Kris – Silvano Arieti – Phyllis Greenacre – Alfred Adler – Naturalistic views I: The passive subject – Hereditary/evolutionary views – Environmental views – Physiological views – Part IV: Theories of deterministic freedom – Naturalistic views II: The active subject – Philosophical antecedents: Kant – Gestalt psychology – Cognitive associationism – Other cognitive environmental views – Naturalistic views III: The active subject prolonged – Developmental approaches – Psychometric approaches: J. P. Guilford – The third force I: Neoromanticism – The neo-romantic humanists – Albert Maslow: Basic postulates – Ayn Rand – The third force II: The existential humanists – Rollo May – Creativity and death – Erich FROMM – Epilogue – References – Index of names – Index of subjects. (From the introduction)
Personality: An introduction to the theories of psychology, London (Penguin Books, Inc) 1990, 193 p.
(1990)
Although no single theory has yet managed to explain the mystery of human personality, many different approaches can add depth to our common-sense views. In this very readable survey, Peter Morea starts by examining the insights (and omissions) of Freud, Skinner's Behaviourism and the Self Therapy of Carl Rogers. Later thinkers like Erich FROMM, G. H. Mead and George Kelly have developed these ideas, portraying human beings as lonely liberals, as role-players and as scientists trying to make sense of the world. All offer crucial insights and provide different ways of understanding the nature of freedom, good and evil, and the relationship between mind, brain and body. If none is adequate on its own, together they can teach us an astonishing amount about one of the most complex and fascinating issues in psychology. Index: Introduction – The puzzle – The savage infant: Freud's psycho-analysis – Pigeon people: B. F. Skinner's behaviourism – Flower people: Carl Rogers's self theory – Lonely liberals: Erich FROMM's neo-Freudianism – Merely players: The social behaviourism of role theory and G. H.Mead – The knowing scientists: George Kelly's construct theory – The mystery – Epilogue – Sources – Suggestions for further reading.
Love, Liberty and the New Man. Humanism in Erich Fromm, New Delhi (Intercultural Pub.) 1995, 334 pp.
(1995)
Escape from Authority. The Perspectives of Erich Fromm, New York 1961, 349 pp. (Harper an Row).
(1961)
Our approach to the study of personality is to provide a thorough coverage of each of the major theories and to compare and integrate the various approaches. In deciding which theories to discuss, we have chosen those that have had the most significant impact on the field and that are of greatest current importance to our understanding of personality. We have attempted to write about each theory in such a way that the coverage is at once basic and advanced. An understanding of the theories presented requires no prior knowledge of personality theory, but at the same time, we provide sufficient comprehensive coverage of most theories to support advanced study of the theory and its ramifications. / Thus each theory chapter also discusses the historical origins of the theory and the biographical background of the major theorists, covers research associated with the theory, provides a critical evaluation of the approach, deals with applications of the theory, where relevant, and compares the theory with others. Index: Preface – I. Introduction – Theory and research in personality – II. Psychodynamic theories – Psychoanalytic theory: Sigmund Freud – Ego psychology: Erik H. Erikson and Heinz Hartmann – Analytical psychology: Carl Jung – Social analytic theory: Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Erich FROMM, and Harry Stack Sullivan – III. Phenomenological-humanistic theory – Phenomenological-humanistic theory: Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow – IV. Behavioral and cognitive approaches – Stimulus-response learning theory: John Dollard and Neal Miller – A behavioral approach: B. F. Skinner – Cognition, personality, and behavior: George Kelly – Social learning and cognition: Information processing theory: Albert Bandura, Walter Mischel, and Julian Rotter – V. Factor and typological theories – Structure-based systems theory: Raymond Cattell – A typological theory: Hans Jurgen Eysenck – VI. Field theory – Field theory: Kurt Lewin – VII. Integration and conclusion – An overview of personality theory – Glossary – Author index – Subject index.
Fromm, 1984, 95 pp.
(1984)
Erich Fromm – Explorer of the Human Condition, New York and London (Palgrave Macmillan) 2009, 175 p.
(2009)
Examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind.– Provides an introduction, a biographical sketch, a historical discussion of the development of each individual’s thought, and an explication of each of the four major works.– Includes discussions of Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Siegfried Kracauer, and Erich Neumann.
In the Name of Life. Essays om Honor of Erich Fromm, New York (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) 1971.
(1971)
In the Name of Life. Essays in Honor of Erich Fromm, New York (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) 1971.
(1971)
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as >Frankfurt School<. To pay homage to this current of thought, this contributed volume aims to make the archives speak for themselves, to show the public the quantity of unpublished material still existing by the authors of the Critical Theory which are now in funds in different parts of the world (in Germany, in Italy, or in the United States), and to show that Critical Theory remains alive 100 years after its inception.– The volume starts by presenting the archives of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the thinkers who inspired Critical Theory, and the archives of the Institute for Social Research itself. Then it dedicates separate sections to the archives of Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Friedrich Pollock, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Löwenthal and Jürgen Habermas. The book is composed of chapters written by researchers and editors who worked in the different fonds, as well as chapters written by or interviews with researchers who were or are in charge of some of the archives, or who are especially familiar with the material.– The Archives of Critical Theory will be an invaluable tool for researchers in many disciplines working with Critical Theory of Society, such as Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Philosophy, History, Education, Law and Cultural Studies, among others. Readers will find information about the content of each archive and the history of its constitution. The various contributions present many ways in which the materials may be explored and explain how such explorations affected or may yet affect the state of the research.