Analytical social psychology
The analytical social psychology is of Erich Fromm early 1930s during his participation at the Institute for Social Research founded social psychology , the integration of materialist sociology and psychoanalysis does. According to the term, it is a psychoanalytical social psychology that aims to describe and explain social structures and processes with reference to the laws that were discovered in particular by Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud in the development of society and in people.
The social character is the central basic principle of the analytical social psychology by Erich Fromm. It describes the process of forming the character structure depending on the socio-economic structure of a society. The social character - like the individual character - can be described according to the character traits or character traits present in it, which are manifested in specific character orientations. The function of the social character is to induce the people of a society to do the socially expected with the feeling of freedom and thus to secure the continued existence of society. Nevertheless, the character passions and instinctual tendencies can come into conflict with the repressive structures of a society.
A typical analysis of this kind is from Fromm's Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973).
literature
- Helmut Dahmer (ed.): Analytical social psychology. 2 volumes, Frankfurt / M. 1980.
- Markus Brunner, Nicole Burgermeister, Jan Lohl, Marc Schwietring & Sebastian Winter (eds.): On the history of psychoanalytic social psychology . Freie Association 15, H. 3/4 (2013).
- Manfred Clemenz: Psychoanalytical Social Psychology. To water. 1998.
- Erich Fromm: Complete edition: Analytical social psychology. ISBN 978-3-421-01951-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald Mackenthun: ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Erich Fromm's work