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The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.

— Russell Jacoby Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975)

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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)

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