McLaughlin Neil
Department of Sociology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON Canada L8S 4M4. E-mail:
Psychoanal Rev. 2017 Aug;104(4):415-435. doi: 10.1521/prev.2017.104.4.415.
After decades of neglect, sociology is experiencing a revival of interest in psychoanalytic insights, and Erich Fromm's work is uniquely valuable for encouraging dialogue between the two fields. A recipient of a PhD in sociology as a young man in the 1920s, Fromm was a prominent psychoanalytic theorist and clinician, as well as a social researcher and public intellectual in the 1930s, up to his death in 1980. After a historical account of the relative neglect of Fromm in both disciplines, this paper examines the place of his psychoanalytic theory within sociology today as a way of discussing sociology's complicated relationship to psychoanalysis and the insights each field can offer the other.
在经历了数十年的忽视之后，社会学领域正重新燃起对精神分析见解的兴趣，而埃里希·弗洛姆的著作在促进这两个领域的对话方面具有独特的价值。弗洛姆在20世纪20年代年轻时获得了社会学博士学位，他是一位杰出的精神分析理论家兼临床医生，同时也是20世纪30年代的社会研究者和公共知识分子，直至1980年去世。在对弗洛姆在这两个学科中相对被忽视的情况进行历史叙述之后，本文探讨了他的精神分析理论在当今社会学中的地位，以此来讨论社会学与精神分析之间复杂的关系，以及每个领域能为对方提供的见解。
