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Life Itself Is an Art: The Life and Work of Erich Fromm

Author(s) : Rainer Funk

Table of Contents

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