Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm

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Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm's theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic - their points of continuity and contradiction.

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Introduction: Problems, Methods, Solutions

Part I: Metapsychology And Society

Chapter I: Phenomenology And Dynamics of Erich Fromm's 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 Fromm's 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 Fromm's 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