Adorno’s typology of the prejudice-free lacked a pseudo-leftist category

Evidence

Among the syndromes of those without prejudices, Adorno had in fact distinguished between stubborn', protesting’, impulsive', naturally prejudice-free’ and genuinely liberal', conceding only to the last group an ideal balance between superego, ego and id. However, he did not have a category pseudo-leftist’ to correspond explicitly to the category pseudo-conservative'. This category seemed to be easily subsumed under the headings of stubborn’ or protesting' prejudice-free persons. But what, in that case, did the concept prejudice-free’ mean? For those who were genuinely pseudo-leftists, it was more than euphemistic. One might have pointed to the fact that the fascist character structure also lay behind pseudo-leftist personalities, and these could therefore be listed under the syndromes of prejudice. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1825

Categorization

• DEFINE: Adorno’s five-way typology distinguishing stubborn, protesting, impulsive, naturally prejudice-free, and genuinely liberal personality types.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno adapted Fromm’s rebel-revolutionary split into a pseudo-conservative versus conservative split — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1588; Adorno retained class analysis while abandoning proletarian class-consciousness as impossible — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 679

Broader Connections

• Adorno retained class analysis while abandoning proletarian class-consciousness as impossible #expands (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 679