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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.
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.
Es wird eine Einführung in die Entstehungsgeschichte der >Analytischen Sozialpsychologie< Erich FROMMs im Zeitraum von 1928 bis 1938 gegeben. Die wichtigsten Etappen im wissenschaftlichen Leben von FROMM werden nachgezeichnet und die wesentlichen theoretischen Wurzeln im Denken FROMMs aufgezeigt. Anhand der frühen Studien FROMMs wird die Entwicklung seiner theoretisch-methodischen Vorstellungen und deren Anwendung bei der Analyse bestimmter gesellschaftlicher Phänomene dargestellt. – Inhalt: (1) Einleitung und Begründung des Themas. (2) Überblick zum biographischen Werdegang FROMMs. (3) Über das Verhältnis von Psychoanalyse und Marxismus. (4) Die Entwicklung der analytischen Sozialpsychologie. (5) Anwendung der Methode. (6) Rezeption und Bewertung.
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.
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.