By Erich Fromm
A considerate exam of psychotherapy from Erich Fromm, a celebrated chief within the field
Over the process a distinct occupation, Erich Fromm equipped a name as a skilled speaker and proficient psychoanalyst—the first specialization of this polymath. The paintings of Listening is a transcription of a seminar Fromm gave in 1974 to American scholars in Switzerland. It presents perception into Fromm’s treatment options in addition to his recommendations and frame of mind whereas operating. during this intimate examine his occupation, Fromm dismantles psychoanalysis after which reassembles it in a transparent and interesting fashion. This book gains an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm together with infrequent pictures and never-before-seen files from the author’s property.
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He has lost the image of her to w h i c h he had always related w i t h the passion of grief. H e had always tried to save, we may say conserve, that image through his identification, i n w h i c h the w o r k of keeping the image alive gave h i m a vicarious sense of animation. T h i s places h i m i n an odd relation to Freud's (1917) account of the sequence of the elements of m o u r n i n g i n Mourning and Melancholia. There, a sudden and u n controllable identification w i t h the dead beloved sets up a household w i t h i n the subject that cannot be sustained indefinitely.
One is reminded of Freud's famous anecdote i n "The Interpretation of Dreams ' about the m a n w h o gives three incompatible reasons to 1 excuse h i m from having damaged a b o r r o w e d kettle: each reason might stand alone as an excuse, but together they cancel one another out [cf. F r e u d 1900, p. ) One of the principal aims of Critical Theory i n rereading F r e u d , of course, had been to show that what psychoanalysis had posited as " h u m a n nature" was i n fact an eminently h i s t o r i c a l construct, the product of a coercive, even a specifically "repressive" civilization.
T h e fundamental question, however, is h o w are these terms themselves to be interpreted? If it is thought that having said " m o t h e r " or "father" the search for the origin is over, one can surely observe that it never began. O n c e the image is treated as the substitute for an original, the answer is already given. But it is a purely tautological form of reasoning. T h e fact is that the term mother or father s h o u l d be treated not as persons but as functions or posi tions. There must be an alternative account that does not reduce the reality of the series and does not repress the centrality of the image as such.