Adorno prized psychoanalysis as a weapon against instinct metaphysics.

Evidence

We regard the significance of psychoanalysis so highly because it serves the investigation of the unconscious without burdening it with any inappropriate metaphysical pathos, and because its investigations are directed at the elimination of unconscious states and thus offer a decisive weapon against every sort of metaphysics of the instincts and deification of mere dull, organic life.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 329

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 329
• XREF: connects to: Adorno defended Freud’s instinct theory against neo-Freudian revisionist critiques — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 358; Adorno defended empirical methods by citing depth-psychological techniques against superficiality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1941; Adorno treated orthodox psychoanalytic theory as simultaneously a sociology — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1838 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno defended Freud’s instinct theory against neo-Freudian revisionist critiques #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 358
• Adorno grounded his analysis of fascist propaganda in Freud’s group psychology. #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1578
• Adorno defended empirical methods by citing depth-psychological techniques against superficiality. #exemplifies (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1941
• Adorno treated orthodox psychoanalytic theory as simultaneously a sociology #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1838