Social Pathology
Fromm, Robbins, and Neoliberal Negative Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9021682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeremy J Northup (0009-0007-8631-202X, Point Park University, corresponding author), Jeremy Northup (0009-0001-4170-6304, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00221678261421343 |
| OpenAlex | W7128950762 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper overviews Brent Robbins’ theoretical work on war, colonialism, anesthetic culture, and contemporary psychological diagnostics as forms of social pathology. It argues that Robbins is philosophically and ethically indebted to the work of Erich Fromm, in particular his concepts of normative humanism, pathological normalcy, and socially patterned defects. Finally, this paper suggests that a horizon of relationality called neoliberal negative communities could and should be added to the social pathological ledger
Horizon · Neoliberalism (international relations · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Social theory · Work (physics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Neoliberalism and psychological ethics.
The ontological structure of Erich Fromm’s critical humanism
The poison in the cure
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Introduction to metabletics
Social Character
A Hermeneutics of Love for Community-Based, Participatory Action Research
The Heart of Humanistic Psychology
A Troubled World and the Practice of Psychotherapy
Why the self is empty
Brief History of Neoliberalism
The Therapeutic Spirit of Neoliberalism
Psychoanalysis and the Hermeneutic Turn
Neo-liberalism as creative destruction
Schizo-Economy
Undoing the Demos
Philip Rieff's Moral Vision of Sociology
Four conceptions of social pathology
| Highly cited | No |
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