Biomedical subjects

M Erdheim

Publications and source records attributed to M Erdheim.

9 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1995

[Is there an end to adolescence?--Observations from the ethnopsychoanalytic viewpoint].

Being an adult today does not mean anymore to have secure knowledge and routine at one's disposal, but rather being able to endure anxiety and uncertainty in culture. In the course of the process of civilization youth has more and more become the model and embodiment of a dynamic, ever-changing culture. As a consequence of abolishing initiation rituals, which originally determined the transition to adulthood, adolescents today must develop their own strategies in order to relate chaos and order to each other. The antagonism between family and culture plays a central role here: The individual must be able to personify two aggregate states as it were, that is being firm in the family and being fluid in culture. Today adolescence only ends inside the family when the individual takes on a parent role, but in the cultural area we should remain adolescents all of our lives, in order to muster the creativity necessary for a changing culture.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed1994

[The foreign evil].

The strange as well as the criminal may serve to maintain a person's psychohygiene. They help to take the burden of internal psychological conflicts from the individual's shoulders, but at the same time confine his personal growth and his ability to become aware of his own dark sides.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1993

[Psychoanalysis, adolescence and subsequent psychological effects].

Theories of the avant-garde in art aim at discovering new meanings in what appear to be securely established traditions. This approach also plays an important role in psychoanalysis, inquiring as it does into the human capacity for subsequently relating to the past in such a way as to create new traditions with a view to restructuring the present. Erdheim's contention is that this historical capacity is a product of the two-phase nature of human sexual development and comes to fruition in adolescence: "Adolescence is the avant-garde of the individual." With reference to three specific factors--male-female polarity, the meaning of aggression and omnipotence, antagonism between family and culture--the author traces the way in which this past-oriented and future-related structure takes shape in adolescence.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1992

[Native and alien. On ethnic identity].

Freud's theory of the antagonism between family and culture provides the point of departure for this study, which sets out to rehabilitate the concepts "ethnic" and "ethnic identity". The family represents the locus of established tradition and familiar ritual and seeks to make each new generation identify with "us and ours". Culture, by contrast, is dependent on contact and confrontation with things alien and foreign. Between these extremes and the potential dangers specific to each of them, ethnicity--which is neither biological nor cultural--represents a mediating factor. In adolescence, a phase of dis- and re-orientation, the individual needs to draw upon his ethnic identity to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between familial and cultural claims, between the native and the alien.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1988