A first attempt at psychoanalysing the post modern personality.
In what condition is the psyche of modern man? How does he manage to survive in a world offering his human faculties - thinking, feeling, acting - hitherto unprecedented scope for activity and development? Dr. Rainer Funk presents the first psychoanalytic interpretation of the postmodern personality, derived from the social psychology of Erich Fromm. While Fromm described the authoritarian as well as the market-oriented individual, Funk identifies the non-productive, self-oriented 'I-am-me' type of today.
»Self-orientation is a new way of life. It has its origins in a personality type that has never before existed in quite such abundance and with such a high level of public acceptance as a model of the modern lifestyle. The new personality type is a psycho-sociological phenomenon, which is not only to be considered in relation to the major changes taking place within the economy and society, but also in relation to the so-called postmodernist movements in philosophy, art, literature and sociology, in so far as these are expressed in the post modern world and its lifestyles.«
In a profoundly knowledgeable and yet accessible manner, the psychoanalyst describes the characteristics as well as the consequences of this postmodern focus upon the self.
Dr. Rainer Funk was born in 1943 and is a psychoanalyst with his own practice. He was Erich Fromm’s last assistant, the editor of his works, his literary executor and trustee.
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