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Freud's link to a Hegelian tradition—with which he otherwise shares little—is in the deliberate renunciation of common sense. A person who professes to believe in commonsense psychology, Freud is reported saying once, and who thinks psychoanalysis is 'far-fetched' can certainly have no understanding of it, for it is common sense which produces all the ills we have to cure.

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The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.

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The Adlerians, in the name of individual psychology, take the side of society against the individual. … Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. Our science … is based on common sense. Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

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