Abstract: . . .  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 . . .
. . .  gradually and should not Page 16 16 overtax the persons involved, yet a clear and challenging concept must be proposed, with the goal that I-am-me oriented persons themselves assume responsibility for their strong and weak egos, their personal ideals, and the accepted norms as well as discontinue utilizing the responsibility of the therapist, the social worker, or educator and exercising control over these. The last word belongs to Erich Fromm: „Productiveness is man's ability to use his powers and to realize the potentialities inherent in him .“ (E. Fromm, Man for Him- self , p. 84) Copyright © 2006 by Dr. Rainer Funk, Ursrainer Ring 24, D-72076 Tübingen Tel. 07071-600004, Fax -600049; E-Mail: frommfunk[at-symbol] aol.com Translated from German by Dr. Jo Van Vliet, Tübingen  . . .
. . .  recognize that he or she is in control and can observe how the therapist is fight- ing against this projection. In this way the client's ego no longer experiences itself as being passively threatened but as actively controlling, resulting in the „role re- versal“ typical of the projective identification. In the meantime the significance of projective identification has also been de- scribed as a mode of communication and is also applied to other areas of compli- cated interactions extending even to management consulting. The process of projective identification is thus able to explain what actually goes on psychically when a person with an I-am-me orientation replaces his or her human ability with „fabricated“ ability. Because the contemporary human being is constantly confronted with the in- adequacy and disgracefulness of his or her own powers and ego competencies in comparison with the greater effectiveness of „made“ ability, he or she denies his or her human ability and projects it onto . . .
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