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Decades of psychoanalytic developmental studies on children one year of age and under point to the need for maternal soothing when the infant is crying. Contrary to behavioral theorists who recommend letting the infant >cry it out,< data from analytically informed researchers of very different orientations converge on the conclusion that rocking, feeding, and/or verbal soothing by the mothering figure are requisite to set the stage for good mental health during the rest of the child’s development.
Esta ponencia presenta algunos aspectos de la psicología social analítica de Fromm que pueden relacionarse con el capitalismo de consumo. En vista de los límites a su crecimiento, las consecuencias destructivas del estilo de vida consumista son cada vez más evidentes. Un consumo sano es algo que debemos practicar. Este nuevo consumo fomentaría un desarrollo sostenible como contrapeso a la tendencia que mercantiliza al consumista y el mundo. El planteamiento del carácter social describe la adaptación social de los poderes psíquicos del hombre a las necesidades económicas. En la actualidad, ese proceso adaptativo ha transformado la educación y el aprendizaje, creando estudiantes que pueden ser usados fácilmente por el sistema económico y que habrán de ser consumistas perfectos. Para acortar una vida potencialmente sin sentido, la producción y el consumo deben limitarse y recortarse a un nivel razonable. Más personas deben cambiar su forma de vida. La propuesta de Erich Fromm presenta razones por las cuales el consumismo es un callejón sin salida para el desarrollo humano y plantea soluciones salvadoras que implican cambiar nuestros sistemas educativos.
Liebe im Konsumkapitalismus (Springer Essentials), Wiesbaden (Springer Fachmedien) 2017, 49 pp.
(2017)
Discussion of the paper by Jorge Silva-Garcia. The Ominous, But Ignored, Overpopulation Threat
(2017)
Commento alla relazione di Jorge Silva-Garcia. L'infausta, ignorata minaccia della sovrappopolazione
(2017)
Mainstream social science has struggled to explain the appeal of suicide terrorism to so many Muslim youths, relying as it does on standard socio-economic indicators and research meant to identify suicidal tendencies. The existential emphasis is missing. This commentary is inspired by the work of clinical psychologist Erich Fromm (1900-1980) and his investigation of the social psychology of modernity, as well as how this intermingles with existential fears related to mortality (death-related fears) and the passage of time (the end of the world or apocalypse). Modernity, explained Fromm, makes one feel small, insignificant and isolated in the larger scheme of things. This demands a violent response, often involving self-sacrifice, to reassert the balance, which allows Islamists to take advantage of death-related anxieties and exaggerate the sense of confrontation with the world through apocalyptic prophecies. Current psychological research on death and studies of terrorism and religious extremism both confirm many of Fromm’s findings and expand on them. In this commentary I argue that the religion of Islam, far from being a source of suicide terrorism, has historically restrained both suicidal tendencies and political violence directed at civilians, but it is the slow yet sure encroachment of modernity that has eroded these theological and communitarian defences. Other problems, such as household politics, gender roles, and theological teachings concerning death likewise feed this process, as documented by Arabic researchers in contexts other than political violence.
How can some classical Freudian concepts such as defense, transference, infantile sexuality, and the role of the body ego and superego in the first year of life be applied to help the analyst working with parent–infant dyads? The case of a newborn that could not look at her mother, who did not feel empathy towards this child conceived as a result of an egg donation, was understood using Winnicott’s notion of early superego and the lack of libidinal pleasure. The notion of defenses towards primitive anxiety and the role of unconscious maternal functioning were helpful in helping the child as well as the parents to regulate their interactions.
Rock-A-Bye Baby
(2017)
Fromm, Marx y humanismo
(2017)
Los primeros trabajos de Fromm en los que vincula a Marx y Freud como parte de la Escuela de Frankfurt han recibido una atención desmesurada, mientras que sus trabajos posteriores interpretando a Marx como un humanista, un pensador democrático y antitotalitario, han recibido poca atención en las últimas décadas. Esta ponencia va a analizar obras como Marx’s Concept of Man (1961b) y Socialist Humanism (1965a) en términos de su contexto, su impacto y las controversias que provocaron entre liberales de la Guerra Fría, como Sidney Hook y el joven Richard Bernstein. También se analizan las diferencias entre Fromm y Marcuse respecto del humanismo. Asimismo, esta ponencia examina la correspondencia de Fromm con la marxista feminista y humanista Raya Dunayevskaya y sus relaciones con los disidentes marxistas de la Europa del Este. El diálogo persistente de Fromm con Marx durante las dos últimas décadas de su vida tuvo un fuerte impacto sobre la generación de la década de 1960 y posteriores. En esta época en que la crisis del capitalismo está provocando un nuevo interés en Marx tras el colapso de la Unión Soviética, Fromm también nos habla hoy en día.
The tripod of terrorism
(2017)
Violent attacks against innocent civilians occurring on an everyday and global basis have intensified the discourse on terrorism. However, like pornography, terrorism seems readily recognizable but hard to define. The designation is applied to the destructive acts of religious zealots, mentally unstable individuals, terror-inducing despots, separatist militia, and, at times, even legitimate freedom fighters. Ordinary language fails to define terrorism’s nosological circumference and is itself defiled in the process. While acknowledging this denotational conundrum, this paper will propose that the origins of the current mayhem by the radicalized few reside in three geopolitical realms. These include the long shadow of colonialism, the hypocrisy and violence of certain Western foreign policies, and some fundamental problems in the societies that form the crucible of such rage. As a result, ameliorative strategies need to be directed at (and require the collaboration of) all three parties at the root of this tragic and bloody scenario.
Group narcissism denotes the pathological version of the way in which individuals mirror themselves in a group, often associated with an idealized person. It comes to expression in religious or political extremism and in the celebrity media machine. The notions of a ‘healthy narcissism’ and a ‘natural narcissistic spectrum’ are criticized. The causes of narcissism are discussed.