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This special issue of The Psychoanalytic Review about Erich Fromm's legacy is the result of a conference at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York and the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, held from March 31 to April 2, 2016. The aim of the conference was to revisit and reignite support for Erich Fromm's ideas in ways that would encourage a dialogue between social scientists and psychoanalysts. The speakers addressed macro theoretical, sociological, and clinical issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives: Marxist, humanist, and feminist. Following in Fromm's footsteps as sociologist and psychoanalyst, the contributors engaged in sociopsychoanalytic discourses providing a forum for a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas.
The papers included here, delivered on the last day of the conference, address the theme of Erich Fromm's impact on psychoanalytic thought and practice. All strive to locate Fromm's approach within the history of ideas in sociology and psychoanalysis through cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches, to apply his vision in the contemporary sociocultural context, to reassess his ideas for advocating change and social responsibility, and to analyze their impact on psychoanalytic and sociological thinking and practice. We aim to develop theoretical and clinical models for linking, and thereby enriching, psychic structures with social structures.
Fromm's creative but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to fully integrate sociology and psychoanalysis provide a starting point for future research, anticipating French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's