Adorno had not been psychoanalysed unlike three Institute colleagues

Evidence

Adorno, along with Pollock and Marcuse, was one of the three members of the Institute who had not been analysed, as opposed to Fromm, Lowenthal and Horkheimer, who had. His conception of a correct form of psychoanalysis was not, as Fromm thought, to let the patient experience something of what things ought to be like; nor, as Freud prescribed, to approach the patient as a tolerant representative of the reality principle. Instead, it was to confront the patient as someone who would take the reality principle to its extreme, who would bring the patient into a darkness in which the light of hope would begin to shine. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1107

Categorization

• XREF: The analysed/unanalysed split among Institute members bears on the Fromm–Adorno theory-of-practice dispute, echoing tensions between clinical and critical theory orientations.