Rolf Pohl

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Rolf Pohl (born August 5, 1951 in Hanover ) is a German sociologist and social psychologist . His main topics in teaching, research and publications are masculinity and gender studies , youth research and political psychology. He worked on psychoanalytic and socio-psychological questions about Nazi perpetrators and their crimes.

Life

Rolf Pohl studied psychology, history, political science and sociology in Hanover . In 1986 he received his doctorate in Hanover , was then a research assistant and from 1991 to 1997 academic advisor at the Psychological Institute. He completed his habilitation there in 1996 with the text "Horror feminae": Building blocks for a psychoanalysis of masculinity . Until February 2017 he was a professor at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover .

Rolf Pohl is a founding member of the Political Psychology Working Group, the Society for Psychoanalytical Social Psychology and a member of the "Protection against sexual violence in sport" advisory board of the Sports Youth in the LandesSportBund (LSB) Niedersachsen eV

Positions

In 2010, Pohl summarized some of his positions in a summary:

"1. There is no time-related 'crisis of masculinity', because masculinity itself is structurally a conflictual and conflict-sensitive state of crisis. This means: The talk of the current crisis of masculinity, which has meanwhile become inflationary and misogynous, conceals the fact that the predominant forms of masculinity in male-dominated cultures and societies are fundamentally a fragile and crisis-ridden construct.
2. The inherent characteristics of this construct of masculinity still include unconsciously anchored and physically inscribed claims to superiority and an ambivalent defense against femininity that extends to hostility. In the field of standardized (hetero) sexuality, in particular, this results in an insoluble predicament between the desire for autonomy and the fear of dependency, which can be described as the 'masculinity dilemma' and which is one of the most important sources of sexual and non-sexual violence as a means of restoring one shows the 'intact' masculinity that has fallen to the joints.
3. The important advances in women's, equality and gender policy are an expression of a mere “rhetorical modernization” […] as long as the fundamental asymmetries in a society that continues to be gender hierarchical are denied or concealed. A male crisis discourse that ignores this fact or reinterprets it in an essentialist way is a decontextualized and thus hypocritical talk with which 'the' man is stylized larmoyantly as a deplorable victim of the conditions denounced as 'feminized';
4. The talk of the “crisis of masculinity” is a backward-looking reaction to the radical market intensification of the social crisis area and contains high projective proportions. That means: The crisis appears in many relevant discourses as a result of a general defamation of men, but above all of boys and fathers, one-sidedly neglecting women's politics and the promotion of girls and can, to a greater extent, as a backlash, as an anti-feminine and anti-feminist counter-movement within the framework of a general re-masculinization interpreted by society. "

- Rolf Pohl (2010) : Men - the disadvantaged sex?

Finally, Pohl expresses the hope that with Jessica Benjamin's “paradigmatic model of recognition” a “halfway successful pacification of the gender relationship is possible in principle”.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor with Joachim Perels : Nazi perpetrators in German society (= University of Hanover, Institute for Political Science. Contributions to the discussion. Vol. 29). Offizin, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-930345-37-4 .
  • Enemy woman. Male sexuality, violence and the defense of the feminine. Offizin, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-930345-36-6 .
  • Projection and delusion: Adorno and the social psychology of anti-Semitism. In: Joachim Perels (Ed.): Let suffering become eloquent. Contributions on the thinking of Theodor W. Adorno (= University of Hanover, Institute for Political Science. Contributions to the discussion. Vol. 32). Offizin, Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-930345-53-6 , pp. 27-73.
  • The anti-Semitic madness. Current approaches to psychoanalysis of a social pathology. In: Wolfram Sender, Guido Follert, Mihri Özdogan (ed.): Constellations of anti-Semitism. Research on anti-Semitism and socio-educational practice (= Perspectives on Critical Social Work. Vol. 8). VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-92234-8 , pp. 41-68, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-531-92234-8_2 .
  • Men - The Disadvantaged Gender? Defenses against femininity and anti-feminism in the discourse on the crisis of masculinity. (PDF; 181 kB). In: Mechthild Bereswill , Anke Neuber (Ed.): In the crisis? Masculinity in the 21st century (= Forum Women and Gender Studies. Vol. 31). Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-231-2 , pp. 104-135.
  • Ordinary mass murderers? On the concept of normality in recent research on Nazi perpetrators. In: Markus Brunner, Jan Lohl, Rolf Pohl, Sebastian Winter (eds.): Volksgemeinschaft, perpetrators and anti-Semitism. Contributions to the psychoanalytic social psychology of National Socialism and its aftermath. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8379-2055-0 , pp. 19–56.
  • The 'own' and the 'other' gender. Adolescence, masculinity and violence. In: Elke Kleinau, Barbara Rendtorff (Hrsg.): Eigen und anders - Contributions from gender research and psychoanalytical pedagogy (= series of publications of the women's and gender research section of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE). Vol. 2). Barbara Budrich, Opladen et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8474-0001-1 , pp. 109–126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rolf Pohl . In: Working Group Political Psychology at the Leibniz University Hannover. Retrieved June 20, 2012.
  2. ↑ Marc Schwietring: Message in a bottle in stormy seas: The subject of social psychology was recently dealt with at the University of Hanover. In: Neues Deutschland from 8./9. April 2017, p. 24
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Rolf Pohl . In: Institute for Sociology at the Leibniz University Hannover. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Rolf Pohl: Men - the disadvantaged sex? Defenses against femininity and anti-feminism in the discourse on the crisis of masculinity . In: Mechthild Bereswill, Anke Neuber (Ed.): In the crisis? Masculinity in the 21st Century (=  Forum Women and Gender Studies . Volume 31 ). Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-231-2 , p. 104–135 ( agpolpsy.de [PDF; 177 kB ; accessed on August 5, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover