PSYCHOANALYSIS: A NEW VISION -- ERICH FROMM
ERICH FROMM -- A NEW VISION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Erich Fromm was a German-American psychoanalyst, psychologist, and social philosopher known for his significant contributions to the fields of psychoanalysis and humanistic psychology. He was born on March 23, 1900, in Frankfurt, Germany, and died on March 18, 1980, in Switzerland. Fromm's work often focused on the intersection of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and he explored topics such as love, human nature, and the impact of society on individual well-being.
In this book, Fromm revisits Sigmund Freud’s work, ushering psychoanalysis into the modern age.
In The Revision of Psychoanalysis, Fromm applies his innovative, humanist approach to Freud’s often contradictory ideas. Fromm pays special attention to the fact that human beings’ main problem has been the way they are related to the outer world, to others, and to themselves. Human passions and their effects have to be explained differently than Freud did, and psychoanalysis must be revised to accommodate this—a fact Fromm explains in his typically brilliant way. The result is a comprehensive, updated look at psychoanalysis and humanistic thinking that is as relevant today as when it was first written. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Contents.
Part One. On My Psychoanalytic Approach.
Part Two. The Dialectic Revision of Psychoanalysis.
The Necessity for the Revision of Psychoanalysis.
Subject and Method of the Revision of Psychoanalysis.
Aspects of a Revised Theory of Drives.
Revision of the Theory of the Unconscious and the Repressed.
Unconsciousness and the Repression of Sexuality.
The Unconscious and the Repression of Mother Fixation.
The Fixation on Idols as an Expression of the Social Unconscious.
The Fixation on Idols and the Phenomenon of Transference.
Overcoming the Fixation on Idols.
The Socially Repressed and Its Meaning for a Revision of the Unconscious.
The New Concept of the Unconscious According to Ronald D. Laing.
Causes of Overcoming Repression.
The Relevance of Society, Sexuality, and the Body in a Revised Psychoanalysis.
The Revision of Psychoanalytic Therapy.
Aspects in the Realm of Therapeutic Practice.
Transtherapeutic Aspects of Psychoanalysis.
Part Three. Sexuality and Sexual Perversions.
Aspects of the Sexual Liberation Movement.
Sexuality and Consumerism.
Sexuality and the New Life-Style of the Hippie Movement.
Sexuality and Psychoanalysis: The Relevance of Wilhelm Reich.
The Sexual Perversions and Their Evaluation.
The History of the Evaluation of Sexual Perversions.
The Psychoanalytic Evaluation of Perversions.
The Perverse Experience of saide-ism and That of the Anal Character.
The Revision of Perversions, Using Saide-ism as an Example.
Manifestations and the Essence of saide-ism.
The Social Determination of saide-ism.
saide-ism and Necrophilia.
Part Four. The Alleged Radicalism of Herbert Marcuse.
Marcuse’s Understanding of Freud.
The Concept of Perversions.
The Idealization of Hopelessness.