[…] Erich Fromm's latest work is an ambitious attempt to synthesize psychoanalysis and ethics by grounding the norms of the latter in the integrated personality. The ethical agent is characterized by a >productive orientation< which permits him to realize his constructive potentialities in thought, work, and love. Virtue consists in recognizing his obligation to his mature self; vice, in denying his obligation and therefore >mutilating< his thwarted self. The good life finds itself validated not by authoritarian dogma or supernatural sanction but by man's constructive needs and aspirations as disclosed in the findings of psychology and anthropology. Fromm's position, therefore, allies him not only with those rationalists and humanists whose ethical orientation is anthropocentric in the best sense of the word but also with the modern naturalists who maintain that ethical judgments can be the subject matter of a scientific morality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Comments on the book >Man for Himself< by Erich Fromm […] Hose, who enjoyed the provocative manipulation of psychological concepts in >Escape from Freedom< no doubt will be further rewarded by Fromm's continued exploration of contemporary character-structure, but they will find little, to enlighten them on ethical theory and practice. Fromm's book is an ambitious attempt to synthesize psychoanalysis and ethics by grounding the norms of the latter in the integrated personality. The ethical agent is characterized by a >productive orientation< which permits him to realize his constructive potentialities in thought, work, and love. One of the defects of the book is the absence of any specific societal program which can affect the integrated personality. Another defect lies in a dereliction which the author shares, with all other humanists and naturalists who have dealt with ethics; i.e., the lack of emphasis upon the implicit moral character of the sciences themselves. (APA PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)
Sexuality and Character
(1948)
Seksualizn u charakter
(1948)
Seksualnostta i charakteret
(1948)
Das Erscheinen des Kinsey-Reports im Jahr 1948 ist für Erich Fromm nur der Anlass, um sein Verständnis der Bedeutung der Sexualität zu präzisieren. Sigmund Freud sieht das Beziehungsgeschehen von der Sexualität geprägt, so dass die Art und Qualität der Sexualität immer auch über das Wohl und Wehe einer Beziehung mitentscheidet. Für Erich Fromm sind die den Charakter prägenden und in der Gesellschaft vorgegebenen Beziehungsmuster für das Partnergeschehen entscheidend. Die Charakterstrebungen wirken sich dann auch auf das Erleben der Sexualität aus und auf die Frage, welche Rolle die Sexualität im Partnererleben spielt. Die Frage, welche Rolle die Sexualität für das Gelingen von Partnerschaft spielt, ist allgegenwärtig. Der Beitrag macht deutlich, dass in der Regel das Beziehungsmuster das Problem ist.
Der Beitrag >Einleitung in P. Mullahy 'Oedipus. Myth and Complex'< entstand aus Fromms Freundschaft zu Patrick Mullahy. Mullahy lehrte wie Fromm an der Columbia University und am William Alanson White Institute in New York und war einer der Ersten, der Fromms Denken systematisch zu erfassen suchte. Vor allem teilte er die Kritik Fromms an der Freudschen Theorie vom Ödipuskomplex, die Fromm in diesem Beitrag zum ersten Mal vom Mythos selbst her begründet.
The Theories of Erich Fromm
(1948)
A Fable About Man
(1948)
Dialogue On Free Will
(1948)
Excerpt of Piaget, J., 1948: The moral judgement in the child, III, Glencoe(Zhe free Press) 1948.
(1948)
Excerpt of Piaget, J., 1948: The moral judgement in the child, III, Glencoe(Zhe free Press) 1948.
(1948)
A Disapproval of an Unreasonable Use of the Discipline of Dialectic, translated by Hans Nacbod
(1948)
General Introduction
(1948)