Individual and Social Origins of Neurosis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5250472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erich Fromm (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1944 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 380 |
| Publication date | 1944-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2085981 |
| OpenAlex | W2330602609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
T HE HISTORY of science is a history of erroneous statements. Yet these erroneous statements which mark the progress of thought have a particular quality: they are productive. And they are not just errors either; they are statements, the truth of which is veiled by misconceptions, is clothed in erroneous and inadequate concepts. They are rational visions which contain the seed of truth, which matures and blossoms in the continuous effort of mankind to arrive at objectively valid knowledge about man and nature. Many profound insights about man and society have first found expression in myths and fairy tales, others in metaphysical speculations, others in scientific assumptions which have proven to be incorrect after one or two generations. It is not difficult to see why the evolution of human thought proceeds in this way. The aim of any thinking human being is to arrive at the whole truth, to understand the totality of phenomena which puzzle him. He has only one short life and must want to have a vision of the truth about the world in this short span of time. But he could only understand this totality if his life span were identical with that of the human race. It is only in the process of historical evolution that man develops techniques of observation, gains greater objectivity as an observer, collects new data which are necessary to know if one is to understand the whole. There is a gap, then, between what even the greatest genius can visualize as the truth, and the limitations of knowledge which depend on the accident of the historical phase he happens to live in. Since we cannot live in suspense, we try to fill out this gap with the material of knowledge at hand, even if this material is lacking in the validity which the essence of the vision may have
Neurosis · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Psychology
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Dependency and Japanese Socialization
Likoda LI-MBOG [Native horizons
Erich Fromm’s social psychoanalysis
Humanistic transformation and the ego-oriented social character
Living by the manual
Family Dynamics and Origin of Schizophrenia
Superego Processes in a Collective Society
The relationship between the individual, the culture, and psychopathology
Edge of Catastrophe
The Dynamics of Group Psychotherapy as Seen by a Sociologist
A Tipi Kişilik Özelliği ve Mental İyi Oluşun Görev Performansı Üzerindeki Etkisi
Toward a General Theory of Social Exchange
The relevance of Erich Fromm’s social character and Bourdieu’s habitus in psychosocial research on gendered work and community after de-industrialisation
Reflecting on attention-deficient hyperactivity disorder and disablement in education with Eric Fromm
Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society
The 1982 division 27 award for distinguished contributions to community psychology and community mental health
The modern age
Personality as an Element of Regional Geography
Clínica e política
Role Elements
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders in Chinese Culture
Social Character and Social Problems
Escape, Fromm, Freedom
Blanks on the cognitive map
Freud and American Sociology, 1909-1949
The neurotic citizen
Le noyau dur de la théorie sociale de Marx
Reconstructing Erich Fromm's 'pathology of normalcy
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.41 |
| Citation span | 1955 - 2024 (70) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |