Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis
The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving examines what drives human beings.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to attempt to present the reality of the individual human being’s unconscious and to find ways of dealing with unconscious forces. In the early 1930s, Erich Fromm built upon Freud’s insights on the individual and began to study the unconscious of society. However, this attempt soon revealed the limits of the theory of drives, which Freud used to bring his discoveries into a systematic explanatory context.

In Beyond Freud, Fromm discusses his findings in relation to Freud’s. In studying both the unconsciousness of the individual and of society, Fromm found that Freud wrongly based psychology totally on natural factors; Freud needed to include social influences as well.

This book is broken into three dynamic sections:
1. Man’s Impulse Structure and Its Relation to Culture
2. Psychic Needs and Society (1956 lecture)
3. Dealing with the Unconscious in Psychotherapeutic Practice (1959 lecture)

Beyond Freud explores the understanding of psychoanalytic theory, relating Freudian observations and practices to the needs of society; handling the unconscious in psychotherapeutic practice; and considering the relevance of Freud’s discoveries for therapy today.
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Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis
The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving examines what drives human beings.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to attempt to present the reality of the individual human being’s unconscious and to find ways of dealing with unconscious forces. In the early 1930s, Erich Fromm built upon Freud’s insights on the individual and began to study the unconscious of society. However, this attempt soon revealed the limits of the theory of drives, which Freud used to bring his discoveries into a systematic explanatory context.

In Beyond Freud, Fromm discusses his findings in relation to Freud’s. In studying both the unconsciousness of the individual and of society, Fromm found that Freud wrongly based psychology totally on natural factors; Freud needed to include social influences as well.

This book is broken into three dynamic sections:
1. Man’s Impulse Structure and Its Relation to Culture
2. Psychic Needs and Society (1956 lecture)
3. Dealing with the Unconscious in Psychotherapeutic Practice (1959 lecture)

Beyond Freud explores the understanding of psychoanalytic theory, relating Freudian observations and practices to the needs of society; handling the unconscious in psychotherapeutic practice; and considering the relevance of Freud’s discoveries for therapy today.
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Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis

Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis

by Erich Fromm
Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis

Beyond Freud: From Individual to Social Psychoanalysis

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The acclaimed social psychologist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Loving examines what drives human beings.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to attempt to present the reality of the individual human being’s unconscious and to find ways of dealing with unconscious forces. In the early 1930s, Erich Fromm built upon Freud’s insights on the individual and began to study the unconscious of society. However, this attempt soon revealed the limits of the theory of drives, which Freud used to bring his discoveries into a systematic explanatory context.

In Beyond Freud, Fromm discusses his findings in relation to Freud’s. In studying both the unconsciousness of the individual and of society, Fromm found that Freud wrongly based psychology totally on natural factors; Freud needed to include social influences as well.

This book is broken into three dynamic sections:
1. Man’s Impulse Structure and Its Relation to Culture
2. Psychic Needs and Society (1956 lecture)
3. Dealing with the Unconscious in Psychotherapeutic Practice (1959 lecture)

Beyond Freud explores the understanding of psychoanalytic theory, relating Freudian observations and practices to the needs of society; handling the unconscious in psychotherapeutic practice; and considering the relevance of Freud’s discoveries for therapy today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504082785
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 02/28/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 212
Sales rank: 583,931
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) was a bestselling psychoanalyst and social philosopher whose views about alienation, love, and sanity in society—discussed in his books such as Escape from Freedom, The Art of Loving, The Sane Society, and To Have or To Be?—helped shape the landscape of psychology in the mid-twentieth century. Fromm was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to Jewish parents, and studied at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg (where in 1922 he earned his doctorate in sociology), and Munich. In the 1930s he was one of the most influential figures at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. In 1934, as the Nazis rose to power, he moved to the United States. He practiced psychoanalysis in both New York and Mexico City before moving to Switzerland in 1974, where he continued his work until his death.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Foreword 7

Introduction Rainer Funk 9

I Man's Impulse Structure and Its Relation to Culture 17

1 Psychoanalytic Understanding of Social Phenomena 17

a The two principles of explanation according to Freud 17

b Freud's bourgeois concept of man 22

c Critique on Freud's reducrionism 25

2 The Social Psychoanalytic Approach and Its Relevance for Psychoanalytic Theory 27

a The revision of the Oedipus complex, the concept of primary narcissism, and die psychology of women 28

b The revision of the role family has 34

c The revision of the theory of drives 37

3 The Difference in Psychoanalytic Theory Illustrated on the Anal Character 45

a It is not only a matter of sexuality and its derivates 45

b Freud's description and interpretation of the anal character 46

c The anal character as the outcome of being related to the outside world 50

d The relevance of different explanations of character genesis and their relevence for character typologies 55

4 The Outcome of the Revised Psychoanalytic Theory: The Socially Formed Character 58

a The socially typical character representing the socially molded psychic structure of the individual 58

b The function of the socially typical character 59

5 Analytic Social Psychology Compared with Other Approaches 65

a Approaches to exploring ?the spirit? of a society 66

b The theory of historical materialism 69

c The concept of ?habits? in American social psychology 71

II Psychic Needs and Society (Lecture 1956) 75

III Dealing with the Unconscious in Psychotherapeutic Practice (Three Lectures 1959) 83

1 My Understanding of What Is Being Unconscious 83

2 Alienation as a Particular Form of Unconsciousness 90

3 Implications for Being Related to the Patient 100

a How we should not be related to the patient 100

b Premises for understanding the patient 101

c Being centrally related to the patient 104

d Being aware of the own mode of relatedness 110

4 About the First Sessions 112

5 Aspects of the Therapeutic Process 117

IV The Relevance of Psychoanalysis for the Future (Lecture 1975) 123

1 Why Theories Are Necessarily Faulty 124

2 Freud's Discoveries and Their Limitations 127

a Freud's concept of science 127

b Freud's discovery of unconscious conflicts 132

c Repression of sexuality 135

d Transference and the concept of character 138

Bibliography 149

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