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Instead of ideologically synchronizing contradictions, or assigning them to separate halls of the academy, critical theory seeks to articulate them.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of “on the one hand and the other” but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
The sundering of a scientific from a poetic truth is the primal mark of the administrative mind.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
The child ego, once nurtured and scarred by the family is no longer nurtured but simply integrated.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
In accepting the bourgeois form of reason as Reason itself, Roszak does his bit to perpetuate its reign.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rules unchallenged; to be transcended it must first be remembered.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Multiculturalism relies on an intellectual rout, the refusal or inability to address what makes up a culture.
The End of Utopia (1999)
The professional philosopher in keen competition with the natural scientist resolves to be more certain about less.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
The story of the rise, fall, and forgetting of the individual is the tale of the rise, fall, and repression of psychoanalysis.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Multiculturalism is not the opposite of assimilation, but its product.
The End of Utopia (1999)
David Bromwich has wondered whether intellectuals today would oppose an economic slavery if it lacked any racial or cultural dimension.
The End of Utopia (1999)
Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud’s book, it evinces “the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.”
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Multiculturalism flourishes as a programme while it weakens as a reality.
The Myth of Multiculturalism (1994)
Once upon a time leftists and radicals talked of liberation or the abolition of work. Now the talk is about full employment.
The End of Utopia (1999)
Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inability to think.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)
Though the ancient world understood that work was a curse, modern industrial society spreads its gospel. The working class, Lafargue hopelessly hoped, must reject the work fetish.
The End of Utopia (1999)
The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)