Dr. Rainer Funk is a psychoanalyst, living in Tübingen (Germany). He is Erich Fromm's literary executor and director of the Erich Fromm Institute in Tübingen and co-director of the Erich Fromm Study Center at the Interenational Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. (See: www.rainerfunk.com)

This contribution discusses the question of how the current political development, in which more and more people are voting for right-wing parties, can be understood psychodynamically using Fromm's theories. Rainer Funk sensitizes to the destructive and violent potential of a dominant narcissistic (rather than authoritarian) social character. This is what Erich Fromm's late work stands for.

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the meeting on 11^th of October, 2025 at 3 pm (CET).