Research Catalog

Title

The revision of psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm ; edited by Rainer Funk.

Author

Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Funk, Rainer.

Description

xiv, 149 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• It was Erich Fromm's conviction that psychoanalysis needs to retain Freud's essential insight into the unconscious while replacing his mechanistic-materialistic philosophy with a humanistic one. In this book, never before published in English, Fromm presents such a revision of psychoanalysis, one that is both humanistic and dialectical. The Revision of Psychoanalysis is Fromm's long-expected account of his own personal way of understanding and practicing psychoanalysis.
• Of special interest to today's readers are his continuing efforts to understand the meaning of sexuality, his critique of Herbert Marcuse's vision of psychoanalysis, and the implications of a Freudian analytical social psychology for the reform of social arrangements. The book is essential reading for psychologists and for social and political theorists in many disciplines. For psychoanalysts, it provides Fromm's most provocative and unique recommendations for the revision of psychoanalysis.

Series Statement

Interventions--theory and contemporary politics

Uniform Title

• Entdeckung des gesellschaftlichen Unbewussten. English
• Interventions--theory and contemporary politics.

Alternative Title

Entdeckung des gesellschaftlichen Unbewussten.

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• Subconsciousness > Social aspects
• Social psychology
• Paraphilias
• Subconsciousness
• Psychosexual disorders
• Paraphilic Disorders
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology, Social
• Unconscious, Psychology
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• psychoanalysis
• social psychology
• unconscious
• Subconsciousness
• Psychosexual disorders
• Paraphilias
• Social psychology
• Subconsciousness > Social aspects
• Psychoanalyse
• Onderbewustzijn
• Seksuele afwijkingen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-134) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Rainer Funk -- 1. On My Psychoanalytic Approach -- 2. 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. The Relevance of Society, Sexuality, and the Body in a Revised Psychoanalysis. The Revision of Psychoanalytic Therapy -- 3. Sexuality and Sexual Perversions. Aspects of the Sexual Liberation Movement. The Sexual Perversions and Their Evaluation. The Revision of Perversions, Using Sadism as an Example -- 4. The Alleged Radicalism of Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse's Understanding of Freud. The Concept of Perversions. The Idealization of Hopelessness.

ISBN

• 0813314518
• 9780813314518

LCCN

92018300

OCLC

• ocm25915745
• 25915745
• SCSB-1972039

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library