Abstract: . . .  character orientation, encouraging the individual human being and shaping his or her circumstances in such a way that his or her own will, strength, striving for independence and autonomy, and capacity for disobedience are strengthened in order to cancel the projection of his or her own powers onto the authority. To do the same with an I-am-me oriented person would be senseless, and would probably even lead to a reinforcement of this mindset. What productiveness means concretely depends on the type of nonproductiveness preponderant in a society. What, then, do productiveness and strengthening of the productive orienta- tion mean for the social character orientation that is I-am-me directed and becom- ing all the more dominant? My reflections on psychodynamics and on the psy- choanalysis of the I-am-me orientation suggest the following summary. The general goal is always to counter the I-am-me orientation assisted by „made“ ability with an experience of the ego assisted by human ability and to recognize and gradually reduce the dependency on „made“ ability. This does not require the rejection of „fabricated“ or „made“ ability but its implementation for the preserva- tion and multiplication—and not the replacement—of human ability. Whoever fights against „made“ ability (and for that reason never watches television or uses a personal computer) is still concerned with „made“ ability, comparable to the 8 For a thorough discussion of this problem see R. Funk, „Was heißt 'productive Orientierung' . . .
. . .  concept of projective identification would seem to be particularly useful for this psychoanalytic verification. The experience of relationship typical for a projective identification was first de- scribed in the therapeutic setting, namely, where it is a matter of aggressive as- pects of the self belonging to the client but perceived by the therapist. The way that a therapist reacts to this projection is of decisive significance for the client. In this situation if the therapist directs his or her attention more closely to the ego experience of the person from whom the aggression proceeds, a strong denial of his or her own aggression is observable as well as a heightened interest in how the person identified with the aggression deals with the aggression projected onto him or her: whether he or she can direct it, or tries to conceal it, or even re- acts to it in a devastating manner (by discontinuing the client's therapy), or whether he or she can interpret it. If the therapist affords the projection a „psychic space,“ he or she gives the client the opportunity to observe how he or she deals with that aspect of the self generally experienced as extremely threatening—whether he or she fears it in the same way, or whether he or she can exorcise it. If the therapist is successful in doing the latter, he or she demonstrates a less threatening reaction for both, es- Page 12 12 tablishing the preconditions for a re-introjection in the client. The particular self-interest of the client in . . .
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