Die Bedeutung der X-Erfahrung in der humanistischen Psychoanalyse : für ein ganzheitliches erweitertes Selbstverständnis von Wissenschaft

Im folgenden Artikel wird die erkenntnis-ethische Bedeutung der X-Erfahrung in der humanistischen Psychoanalyse und Ethik aufgedeckt. Es wird das Frommsche Verständnis von Bewusstem und Unbewusstem erörtert (I), um auf diesem Hintergrund Bedeutung und Wesen der X-Erfahrung in der humanistischen Psychoanalyse zu erhellen (II). Im Anschluss daran wird die X-Erfahrung als erkenntnis-ethisches Paradigma für ein ganzheitliches Selbstverständnis von Wissenschaft und vom Menschen diskutiert - wie es auch Fromm in seinem Aufsatz "Institute for the Science of Man" vorsah (III), und auf diesem Hintergrund versucht, ein evolutionäres Ziel zu formulieren: der liebend bezogene Mensch in einer postpatriarchalischen Welt (IV).

The present article is an attempt to elucidate the epistemological- ethical significance of the x experience in humanistic pychology and ethics. The aim is to show the epistemological-ethical relevance of the x experience phenomenon for developing a new integral self-understanding of the scientific task as a integral anthropology. The aim is to pick up where Fromm left off in his previously unpublished, cautiously formulated programmatic essay entitled "Institute for the Science of Man." The article begins with a section looking at Fromm?s conception of "the conscious mind" and "the unconscious". Particularly stressed here is the radical reform of the Freudian concept of "the unconscious" undertaken by Fromm in his analytical social psychology and humanist psychoanalysis. The second section outlines what the x experience phenomenon is and explains its importance for humanistic psychoanalysis. Fromm?s concept of "derepression" is presented and its important anthropological and epistemological implications discussed. The fact that there had been as good as no scientific study of the logic of the x experience, nor of its epistemological, ethical and anthropological implications, led Fromm to call for what he called an ?empirically based psychological anthropology?, which would serve as the basis for all individual disciplines within the human sciences. The third section, given the heading "The Importance of the X- Experience in Humanistic Psychoanalysis for Achieving an Integrally Expanded Self-Understanding in the Sciences and in Mankind," takes Armin Bader?s epistemological ideal of a integrally expanded self-understanding (the so-called comprehensive method of research) as a key starting point from which a theoretical scientific basis can then be developed for purposes of realizing the Frommian ideal of science as integral anthropology. The article closes by discussing the significance of the x experience for the development of an evolutionary theory of man.