Adorno feared de-economised sociology collapsing into psychology in disguise

Evidence

Adorno identified the ‘primary task’ of the seminar as the attempt to ‘assemble the building blocks of a politico-economic theory beyond the division of economy and sociology, and in doing so, to prevent the de-economisation of sociology from rendering it a psychology in disguise’, such as Freud envisioned it. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1110

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to debates by later critical theorists about psychologism in social theory without political economy. — connects to: Adorno held that individuals were so socialized that psychology dissolved into sociology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1815; Adorno treated orthodox psychoanalytic theory as simultaneously a sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1838; Adorno’s group study sacrificed attribution specificity for objective-spirit analysis. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2035 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Who exactly does ‘psychology in disguise’ target — Parsons, Dahrendorf, or the whole postwar sociological mainstream?