De la mano del psicoanalista y filósofo Erich Fromm (1) se apunta la reflexión hacia la condición paradójica del individuo contemporáneo, en tanto libre y solitario, al realizar una reinterpretación ...de esta condición individual dentro del contexto de las actuales líneas en que se configura nuestra sociedad actual.
Among various social factors associated with health behavior and disease, social cohesion has not captured the imagination of public health researchers as much as social capital as evidenced by the ...subsuming of social cohesion into social capital and the numerous studies analyzing social capital and the comparatively fewer articles analyzing social cohesion and health. In this paper we provide a brief overview of the evolution of the conceptualization of social capital and social cohesion and we use philosopher Erich Fromm’s distinction between “having” and “being” to understand the current research focus on capital over cohesion. We argue that social capital is related to having while social cohesion is related to being and that an emphasis on social capital leads to individualizing tendencies that are antithetical to cohesion. We provide examples drawn from the literature where this conflation of social capital and cohesion results in non-concordant definitions and subsequent operationalization of these constructs. Beyond semantics, the practical implication of focusing on “having” vs. “being” include an emphasis on understanding how to normalize groups and populations rather than providing those groups space for empowerment and agency leading to health.
•Social cohesion is often studied as part of social capital.•A theoretical articulation of the consequences of this conflation is lacking.•Fromm’s distinction of “having” and “being” may explain emphasis on social capital.•Subsuming cohesion into capital discourages empowerment strategies leading to health.•Examples of measurement of both concepts show how this conflation is problematic.
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Este artigo visa apresentar a noçao de ressignificaçâo existencial advinda da experiencia mística, a partir de uma análise psicanalítica frommiana da obra de ficçao A cabana. Segundo o psicanalista ...Erich Fromm, a experiencia mística, pode instaurar no individuo profundas mudanças e aprimoramentos em sua personalidade. Essa reorientaçao existencial pode, inclusive, fornecer ao sujeito uma nova maneira de compreender e de lidar com as contingencias da vida, como é o caso da perda e do sofrimento advindo dela. Como recurso metodológico, este estudo irá se utilizar de uma leitura teórico-bibliográfica das seguintes obras A cabana, de autoria de William P. Young; e O espirito de liberdade, Psicanálise e religiäo e A linguagem esquecida; todas de Erich Fromm. Além destas obras, também recorremos a comentadores do psicanalista supracitado. Por fim, pretende-se mostrar que a experiencia mística pode promover no indivíduo um despertar interior, libertando-o assim de um ciclo de sofrimento existencial.
En el artículo se discute la necesidad de la revisión del concepto de sujeto en las Ciencias Sociales. El artículo trae la atención al comportamiento diario como la salida o la fuente para esta ...revisión. Para efecto del análisis, el artículo desarrolló el caso del tratamiento de los árboles en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, en el contexto teórico de la filosofía de Fromm y la cultura popular contemporánea.
En este ensayo corto quiero proveer una reflexión sobre la concepción de sujeto que todavía domina a la ciencia y a la vida cotidiana. Esta reflexión está basada en el análisis de la cultura popular actual, la observación desde la perspectiva humanista de Erich Fromm y perspectivas semejantes (Buber, Lévinas, Kapuściński). En la primera parte del ensayo, revisaré el marco teórico de la reflexión y principalmente el concepto de la des/a-personificación. En la segunda parte del ensayo analizaré el caso de la vida cotidiana de la ciudad.
Entre Marx y Freud Horcasitas, Beatriz Urías
Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México,
01/2023, Volume:
41, Issue:
121
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Peer reviewed
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Victor Serge, Erich Fromm y Herbert Marcuse elaboraron una primera interpretación acerca de los totalitarismos nazi y soviético. La particularidad de sus escritos al inicio de 1940 fue entrelazar ...conceptos marxistas y psicoanalíticos para comprender la racionalidad que subyacía a estos dos fenómenos. En paralelo, hicieron propuestas para renovar el socialismo en un sentido democrático. Coinciden en plantear que además de la represión política y del control burocrático, la dominación totalitaria se ejercía a través de un potente aparato ideológico que había arraigado en el inconsciente individual y colectivo. Consideraron que la importancia del trabajo intelectual estaba ligada a la comprensión de los mecanismos psicológicos que sustentaban el fenómeno totalitario a fin de erradicarlo.
Victor Serge, Erich Fromm y Herbert Marcuse provided some of the first interpretations of Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism. A special feature of their work in early 1940 was to link Marxist and psychoanalytical concepts to understand the rationality underlying Nazism and Stalinism. At the same time, they formulated proposals to renew socialism in a democratic sense. These three authors posited that, beyond political repression and bureaucratic control, totalitarian rule was implemented through a powerful ideological apparatus that had taken root in the individual and collective subconscious. Moreover, they considered that the importance of intellectual work was linked to the psychological mechanisms that sustained the totalitarian phenomenon with the aim of eradicating it.
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This article examines Erich Fromm (1900-1980) within the context of the so-called “renaissance of Jewish religious thought” in Germany during the early 20th century. It is well known that Fromm was a ...member of the Institute for Social Research, later called the Frankfurt School. The focus of this study, however, is on what has received little attention in research, namely Fromm’s involvement in founding the Freies jüdisches Lehrhaus (the Jewish House of Free Study) in Frankfurt. Fromm participated in the founding of the Lehrhaus as a student and later as a lecturer. During this time, Fromm also wrote his dissertation on Judaism at Heidelberg University. Methodologically, this paper intertwines the historical-biographical axis, which deals with Fromm’s connections to several thinkers: Rabbi Nehemia Nobel, Rabbi Georg Salzberger, Baruch Salman Rabinkow, Franz Rosenzweig, Ernest Simon and others, and the philosophical axis, which focuses on his dissertation, The Jewish Law.
The Freies jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt is primarily associated with Franz Rosenzweig and other thinkers who worked there, such as Gershom Scholem, Ernest Simon, Leo Löwenthal and Martin Buber, who wrote Ich und Du during the years he taught there. With the exception of Buber, the Lehrhaus was their first official teaching venue. The Lehrhaus was characterized by its dialogical atmosphere, and symmetrical relationships between teachers and students, which softened some of the rigidity that was the norm at German educational frameworks at the time. This atmosphere continued to influence Fromm in his adult life, in terms of his attitude towards religion, questioning of authority and his understanding of human nature. Finally, it later played a role in his departure from Freudian libido theory.
This study presents some key ideas from his dissertation, including his position on religious dogma, particularly concerning the Karaite sect, a subject that he later taught as a lecturer at the Lehrhaus. Fromm’s dissertation expresses his preoccupation with his Jewish identity and his examination of the complex theopolitical reality in which the Jews of Germany found themselves at the beginning of the 20th century, including the debates between Orthodox Jews and reformers, and between Zionists and anti-Zionists. This article supports the claim that Fromm’s position that religious factors play a central role in the historical process, which he held throughout his life, was formed in these early years. The article strengthens the scholarly position that Fromm’s Jewish background is relevant to understanding his thought in general.
Das Phänomen des Postfaktischen lässt sich in Anlehnung an Erich Fromm als einen modernen Fluchtmechanismus verstehen. Es handelt sich beim Postfaktischen um eine Flucht vor der Freiheit – eine ...Flucht vor dem freien und eigenständigen Denken und Handeln, dem sich das Individuum in der Moderne entziehen möchte, weil es sich selbst als ohnmächtig wahrnimmt. Allerdings unterscheidet sich diese Flucht von den bei Fromm noch als dominant beschriebenen Fluchtmechanismen ins Autoritäre bzw. Konformistische. Im Unterschied zu diesen ist die Flucht ins Postfaktische nicht mehr dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sich das Individuum der Welt anpasst und unterwirft – vielmehr wird stattdessen die Welt angepasst und dem Selbst unterworfen. Ähnlich der Selbst-Verleugnung bei Fromm ist auch diese Welt-Verleugnung Symptom einer gestörten Welt-Selbst-Beziehung, die zu problematisieren ist.
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