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Those seeking to work out the relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis have not been immune to the intellectual division of labor that severs the life nerve of dialectical thought.

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The story of the rise, fall, and forgetting of the individual is the tale of the rise, fall, and repression of psychoanalysis.

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Freudian concepts exposed the fraud of the existence of the individual. To be absolutely clear here: the Freudian concepts expose the fraud, not so as to perpetuate it, but undo it. That is, unlike the mechanical behaviorists, the point was not to prove that the individual was an illusion; rather it was to show to what extent the individual did not yet exist. To critical theory, psychoanalysis demonstrates the degree to which the individual is de-individualized by society.

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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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As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud's book, it evinces the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.

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