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Bestselling author Erich Fromm revisits Sigmund Freud’s work, ushering psychoanalysis into the modern ageIn The Revision of Psychoanalysis, renowned psychoanalyst and social psychologist Erich Fromm applies his innovative, humanist approach to Freud’s often contradictory ideas. Fromm pays special attention to the fact that human beings’ main problem has been the way they are related to the outer world, to others, and to themselves. Human passions and their effects have to be explained differently than Freud did, and psychoanalysis must be revised to accommodate this—a fact Fromm explains in his typically brilliant way. The result is a comprehensive, updated look at psychoanalysis and humanistic thinking that is as relevant today as when it was first written. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

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⭐Like a lot of other books from Erich Fromm, I’m really glad to see this back in circulation, and in some ways it also appears to be pretty timely given contemporary debates between left and right, the rise of the neo-conservatives and now the (very possibly crypto-fascist) alt(ernative) right (mainly online) and the emphasis I have seen them both lay upon culture shifts, or supposed culture shifts, initiated by the “new left” and hippies, and popular writers, such as Herbert Marcuse, in the sixties.For myself, I loved this book and really wanted to read it because it is one of Fromm’s later books (I think it’d be a good idea to read Man For Himself, Heart of Man, Revolution of Hope and Pathology of Normalcy before coming to this book, although it could be read stand alone, the others provide a context which is built upon here) and also because it has A LOT of the worked out position of Fromm contra Marcuse.This book really demonstrates how Fromm parted ways with the Frankfurt School, which he had worked closely with but who ultimately wound up condemning him and accusing him of all sorts of treachery. Adorno and other key figures from school had acrimonious relationships with Fromm too but Herbert Marcuse, from what I have read, was the writer with whom Fromm engaged in a direct dispute with. Its clear from this book that he did, writing that Marcuse’s books are directly in contradiction to his own perspective worked out over a number of books. Fromm states that Marcuse has not only misinterpreted Marx and Freud but has proceeded to write in an obscure and absurd fashion, lacking all clarity what so ever, and that he thinks this matters as it is likely to impede younger people in understanding Marx, Freud or making links with an older humanist traditions and radical positions.All of this is covered in the last chapters of the book but there are constant references throughout to Marcuse, in particular to One Dimensional Man and Eros and Civilisation, I confess to sharing most of Fromm’s criticisms of Marcuse, from pseudo-intellectualism (Fromm suggests that not one is it impossible for others to understand what Marcuse writes but that he suspects Marcuse did not either) to endorsing suicide and euthanasia (something which has just become more and more popular as time has gone on). Given some of what I have read elsewhere about Fromm and Marcuse’s relationship (Fromm was a friend of Marcuse’s and later began to have concerns about Marcuse’s mental health) and what Fromm wrote elsewhere about psychoanalysis as a theory or party line I can understand some of the repetitive qualities and, at times, angry tone of the book. The criticisms that Fromm makes of Marcuse, in particular his attempts to redeem infantile sexuality, sadism and something he refers to as “polymorphous sexuality” are thought provoking and deserve to be thought about at length by anyone who has ever engaged in a discussion about so called “PoMo” (post-modern) sexuality or normative struggles surrounding the same.The chapters, which constitute the middle of the book, on the supposed sexual revolution, are probably among the most measured and balanced critical evaluation of trending thinking and changes in sexual norms at the time. Fromm roundly condemns the idea that changing sexual habits can be considered “revolutionary” when every other aspect of your life remains unchanged or is positively conservative, he refers to this audience as suburbanites and also makes a great aside about consumerism, particularly the insatiable sort, and connects it with his thinking about contrasting having and being modes of existence. The contrasting of the suburbanites with the hippy movement I think was pretty optimistic, although I think excusable as it is a book of its time in this respect and the point is that this “new” social movement was aiming at change in all its norms, not simply sexual norms, which would transcend consumerism in favour of humanism.The greater part of the book is the first chapter explaining Fromm’s approach and his revision of psychoanalysis, these are great summations of Fromm’s positions and his ideas about the future of psychoanalysis. This material I think would be really useful to anyone who is interested in the neo-Freudians, how they sought to preserve what they found useful in Freudianism and what ideas they developed in response to or in contrast to Freud’s own thinking. Fromm returns again and again to discussion of sadism, sadomasochism, which is in broader definition he considers widespread within society (even within caring or helping professions or roles),and his own typology of biophilic and necrophilic personalities, I have always been disappointed that these ideas did not reach a wider audience or remain popular. Compelling material whether you are new to Fromm or not.

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