Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 05 – The birth of sociometry.
The next discussion involving Marx is in the section The Historic Role Sociometry on page 8. The section opens:
During the first quarter of the twentieth century there were several main directions of thought in development, each apparently unrelated and uncoordinated to the other.
These are the five Moreno refers to: Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 05 – The birth of sociometry.”
Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 04 – Unity of Humankind
The next mention of Marx is in the section called Social and Organic Unity of Mankind. I’m taking the thesis implied in this title as the first point for discussion. Then I address the section where Moreno references Marx about Christianity. The section opens with the famous lines:
A truly therapeutic procedure cannot have less an objective
than the whole of mankind. But no adequate therapy can be
prescribed as long as mankind is not a unity in some fashion and as long as its organization remains unknown.
Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 04 – Unity of Humankind”
Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 03 – Working with Prostitutes.
The subject of this post is a little further on in the Preface of “Who Shall Survive?”. It is in a section called 1913-1914, Genesis of Group Psychotherapy. (xxviii) I’ve broken the selected passage into three sections each with my comment. Continue reading “Marx in “Who Shall Survive?” 03 – Working with Prostitutes.”
Marx in Who Shall Survive? 02 – Human agency
… spontaneity-creativity [is the] propelling force in human progress, beyond and independent from … socio-economic motives…
(Moreno, 1978; xiv, xv)
This is from the same paragraph in Who Shall Survive? I used as the basis for my last post. The passage asks question: What is the propelling force in human progress?
Marx and Moreno differ. Moreno is adamant it is spontaneity-creativity. He implies that for Marx it is socio-economic motives. Continue reading “Marx in Who Shall Survive? 02 – Human agency”
The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?”
The first time Moreno mentions Marx in Who Shall Survive?, is in the Preludes of the Sociometric Movement (1978; xiv, xv)
The advent of sociometry cannot be understood without appraising my presociometric background and the historic-ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Marxism and psychoanalysis, the two opposites, each had spent their theoretic bolt, the one with Nikolai Lenin’s “State and Revolution” (1917), the other with Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” (1929). The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion, they both disavowed he idea of a community which is based on spontaneous love, un-selfishness and sainthood, on positive goodness and naive cooperativeness. I took a position contradictory to both, the side of positive religion.
To summarise: Moreno makes it clear he is not creating his work in a vacuum. Freud and Marx are the ideological setting in the Western world, during and after the First World War. Moreno says “The two opposites had one thing in common: they both rejected religion”. Moreno took the side of positive religion. Continue reading “The First Mention of Marxism in “Who Shall Survive?””
Marx & Moreno Monograph
I’m writing a monograph.
I’ll write a blog post for every mention of Marx and make comments..
Here is the Intro. Followed by the References
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Marx in Moreno’s Who Shall Survive?
About this Monograph
I aim to explore every mention of “Marx” in Who Shall Survive? (Moreno, 1978). Continue reading “Marx & Moreno Monograph”