Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromms theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic their points of continuity and contradiction.
Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromms theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic their points of continuity and contradiction.
Drawing on a systematic reading of Fromm's published output, as well as extensive research in the Fromm archives, Matheus Romanetto extracts the fragments of ontology, logic, and ethics implicit in his writings, leading to a re-evaluation of Fromm's place in 20th century intellectual history. Interpolated with the theoretical argument are three historical excursi thematizing Fromms practice in political life, religious life, and the psychoanalytic clinic, setting the grounds for a new political sociology of radical humanism and critical theory.
Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, sociology, contemporary philosophy, political theory, and critical theory.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Problems, Methods, Solutions
Part I: Metapsychology And Society
Chapter I: Phenomenology And Dynamics of Erich Fromms Works
1. Style and Idea
2. Two Methods Meet
3. Time, Force, and Experience
4. Process, System, and Language
5. Quality and Quantity
6. Logic
Part II: Life And Politics
Chapter II: Anthropology and Sociology
1. The Concept of Life
A) Organic And Psychic Life
B) Organic And Psychic Death
2. The Human Being
A) Evolution
B) Conditions Of Existence
I. Sexual Instinct and Eroticism
II. Aggressive Instinct
C) Human Nature
I. Essential Qualities
II. Laws
III. Essence
3. Society
A) Phylogenesis And Evolution
B) Cooperation And Relatedness
C) Mode Of Production and Alienation
D) Potency and Existence
Chapter Iii: To Go to The Roots: Fromm and Marcuse After The Dissent Debate
1. Theory
2. Ethics
3. Politics
Part III: Ontology And the Clinic
Chapter Iv: Aspects Of Ontology (1937-1964)
1. Phenomenology and Economy
2. Mutual Presupposition, Reflection, And Structuration
3. Affinity and Generativity
4. Convergence and Blends
5. Activity and Contemplation
Chapter V: To Touch Reality: Language and Experience in Erich Fromms
Clinics
1. History and Suffering
2. Technique and Vitality
3. Truth and Reality
Chapter IV: Critique And Praxis
Chapter VI: Aspects Of Logic and Ethics (1964-1980)
1. Reflexivity
2. Self-Awareness and Conscience
3. Differentiation and Freedom
4. Affirmation and Negation
Chapter VII: To Fill the Hearts of Men with A New Spirit: Politics in Erich
Fromms Thought and Action
1. Humanism as Political Formation
2. The Social Psychology of Humanistic Movements
3. Humanism and The Way of The World
4. Strategy, Tactics, Principles
5. The Powers That Be and The World to Come
Conclusion: Toward A Political Sociology
1. Psychological Presuppositions to Political Life
2. Goals
3. Mobilization
4. Means
5. Organization
6. Structure
Matheus Romanetto is a Brazilian sociologist. His work brings together aspects of social theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in the investigation of intellectual, political, and religious movements, exploring their social psychology and structure.
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