Adorno held that individuals were so socialized that psychology dissolved into sociology.
Evidence
In Adorno’s view, modern man was no longer even capable of `spontaneous’ anti-Semitism, as he put it, and no longer represented a suitable object of study for genuine psychology: the psychologist examining him must inevitably become a sociologist, since he was directly encountering society within the supposed individual. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1815
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the Frankfurt dissolution of the individual into social determination — the reason critical ‘psychology’ becomes social theory.
- XREF: Connects to the ch17 claim that workers compensated with glittering distractions, and to the broader ‘end of the individual’ diagnosis. — connects to: Adorno feared de-economised sociology collapsing into psychology in disguise — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1110; Adorno treated individual psyche as the locus where objective social laws operate. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1838; Adorno declared belief that social existence determines consciousness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 331 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno treated individual psyche as the locus where objective social laws operate.
#expands(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1838 - Adorno declared belief that social existence determines consciousness.
#qualifies(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 331 - Adorno feared de-economised sociology collapsing into psychology in disguise
#qualifies(0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1110 - Adorno treated orthodox psychoanalytic theory as simultaneously a sociology
#corroborates(0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1838 - Adorno extended Marx’s species-concept by deriving individuality itself from economic relations.
#expands(0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1255 - Chaadayev envisioned the dissolution of individual personality into a social existence.
#exemplifies(0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2424