Rainer Funk

Life Itself Is an Art (eBook, PDF)

The Life and Work of Erich Fromm

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Produktbeschreibung

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Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose psychoanalytic theories, developed around a humanistic concept of man and society, have had a profound impact on many fields and disciplines: on social life and societal organization, on politics, on religion, on psychotherapy and, last but not least, on the practice of mindfulness.

Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm's last assistant. He wrote his dissertation about Fromm, was designated by Fromm's last will to be his sole literary executor, and is the editor of Fromm's writings. From his very intimate knowledge of Fromm's life and ideas, and his access to an archive that includes 6,000 letters, Funk introduces Fromm's central concepts and examines them in relation to Fromm's lived experiences and to his idea that life itself is an art.

The question of "the art of living" runs through all of the chapters, from the Introduction, in which Funk describes meeting Fromm for the first time in 1972, to the last chapter, in which Funk reflects on the impact of Fromm's social-psychoanalytic writings and his efforts to live well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501351471
• Artikelnr.: 56942394

Autorenporträt

Rainer Funk is Director of the Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen, Co-Director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin, and a practicing psychoanalyst based in Tuebingen, Germany. He is Erich Fromm's sole Literary Executor and among his publications are the 10-volume German edition of Erich Fromm Collected Works (1980 and 1981; expanded to 12-volumes in 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Introduction: Direct Encounter Face to Face Letting
Someone Sense: "This is You" An Exhilarating Experience Encountering the
Stranger The Art of Living as Direct Encounter 1 Roads to the Unconscious
Fromm's Road to Psychoanalysis The Unconscious as Repressed The Power of
Rationalization Indicators of the Unconscious Defensive Strategies against
Becoming Conscious of the Unconscious Understanding the Unconscious The
Dream as a Road to the Unconscious Free Association as a Road to the
Unconscious Parapraxis as a Road to the Unconscious Transference as a Road
to the Unconscious 2 The Individual as a Social Being Erich Fromm - An Only
Child Becomes a Psychoanalyst of Society What Makes a Father Beat His
Children? The Individual as Socialized Being The Meaning of Character
Formations Society within the Individual - the Social Character 3 How Man
Succeeds Love in the Life of Erich Fromm What is Good for Man The Primary
Tendency to Grow The Growth Orientation of One's Own Powers Conceptual
Approaches The Productive Orientation The Capacity for Growth at the
Crossroads 4 How Society Succeeds at the Expense of Man Erich Fromm's
Suffering in Society The Authoritarian Character - at the Expense of
Autonomy The Marketing Orientation - at the Expense of a Sense of Identity
The Narcissistic Character - at the Expense of Interest in the Other The
Ego Orientation - at the Expense of Ego Strength 5 Ways toward Direct
Encounter Fromm's Guides on the Way toward Direct Encounter Preconditions
for an Encounter with One's Own Self Capacity for Critique and Readiness
for Dis-Illusionment Preparatory Exercises Self-Analysis as a Way of
Encounter Encounters and Their Effects Bibliography Index