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By Erich Fromm

A considerate exam of psychotherapy from Erich Fromm, a celebrated chief within the field

Over the process a unusual profession, Erich Fromm equipped a name as a skilled speaker and talented psychoanalyst—the first specialization of this polymath. The paintings of Listening is a transcription of a seminar Fromm gave in 1974 to American scholars in Switzerland. It offers perception into Fromm’s remedy recommendations in addition to his concepts and attitude whereas operating. during this intimate examine his career, Fromm dismantles psychoanalysis after which reassembles it in a transparent and fascinating fashion. This booklet good points an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm together with infrequent pictures and never-before-seen records from the author’s property.

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A special agency is slowly formed there, which is able to stand over against the rest of the ego, which has the function of observing and criticizing the self and of exercising a censorship within the mind, and which we become aware of as our “conscience”. (Freud, 1919, p. 235) Sometimes the doppelgänger takes the form of an imaginary companion (see Nagera, 1969) or of a twin. Here, splitting and projection play prominent roles: the double thus becomes the dumping ground of both idealisations and denigrations.

In this paradox, ontology merges with epistemology: being and knowledge cannot be separated. Indeed, all knowledge is being and is about being. As in the Socratic “Know thyself” carved on the pediment of the temple in Delphi, all we really want to know is who we are—a wish related to our infantile, and never entirely satisfied, sexual curiosity about our origins. It is maybe because none of us can be absolutely certain about our identities that we are all vulnerable to experiencing gaps in our sense of continuity in time and space, and to the disturbing sensation of “not being quite ourselves”.

My mother and my sister look very frightened, but I am not. The dead girl unexpectedly revives, as if leaving a shell or an armour behind her, and gets up. I invite her to come and sit at the table next to me. 26 B O U N DA R I E S A N D B R I D G E S Psychologically speaking Renate had not just one dead sister, but two. There was one whom she was merged with and from whom she had to distance herself and eventually separate; and a second one whom she felt split-off from and whom she longed to reach and integrate within herself.

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