{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Psychoanalysis","slug":"new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396","podcast_index_feed_id":774396,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT2509539662","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/46891bc6-ee3e-11e8-93b3-b3490145f18f/image/01e6486ebb4d1bc7338171e33e6a93c2.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":406,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396"},"episode":{"title":"Roger Frie, \"Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust\" (Oxford UP, 2024)","slug":"roger-frie-edge-of-catastrophe-erich-fromm-fascism-and-the-holocaust-oxford-up-2024","published_at":"2026-05-03T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/roger-frie-edge-of-catastrophe-erich-fromm-fascism-and-the-holocaust-oxford-up-2024","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7241678564.mp3?updated=1777615317","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK7241678564.mp3?updated=1777615317","summary":"Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness. Until now, however, little has been known about the extent to which Fromm's personal experience of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust shaped his outlook and work.In Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust (Oxford 2024), Roger Frie introduces for the first time the unpublished Holocaust correspondence in Fromm's family. The letters provide insight into Fromm's life as a German-Jewish refugee and help us to understand the effect of Nazi Germany's racial terror on Fromm and his German-Jewish family. In the aftermath of the genocide, Fromm returned again and again to the themes of responsibility, social justice, and human solidarity, yet without revealing his own experience. As this book powerfully shows, Fromm's social, political, and psychological writings take on new meaning in light of the traumas and tragedies that he and his family experienced.The image of Fromm that emerges from this book enriches our understanding of what it means to be both a social critic and practicing psychologist. In light of the racial hatred and antisemitism we see today, Frie demonstrates that a politics of engagement and a psychology of well-being go hand in hand. Frie suggests that there is much to be learned from the urgency in Fromm's writings as we seek to respond to the social crises and the renewed threat of fascism in our present age. Roger Frie is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Education at the University of Vienna in Austria, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is also Faculty and…","meta_description":"Erich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3836,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/episodes/roger-frie-edge-of-catastrophe-erich-fromm-fascism-and-the-holocaust-oxford-up-2024/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-psychoanalysis-774396/roger-frie-edge-of-catastrophe-erich-fromm-fascism-and-the-holocaust-oxford-up-2024.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}