Allport borrowed psychoanalytic themes while avoiding purely analytic explanations

Evidence

Allport walked a precarious tightrope with his treatment of the psychodynamic approach to prejudice. He borrowed heavily from the topics it emphasized, but he scrupulously avoided advocating purely psychoanalytic explanations; instead, he incorporated psychodynamic ideas into his own positions. In his section “The Dynamics of Prejudice,” Allport noted that while the “major insights [it contained] are in many instances derived from psychoanalytic work,” he would occasionally “have to place strictures upon the exuberance of the theorizing … Yet this criticalness will not in the least diminish our indebtedness to Freud and to psychoanalysis” (pp. 352–3). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 144

Allport walked a precarious tightrope with his treatment of the psychodynamic approach to prejudice. He borrowed heavily from the topics it emphasized, but he scrupulously avoided advocating purely psychoanalytic explanations; instead, he incorporated psychodynamic ideas into his own positions. In his section “The Dynamics of Prejudice,” Allport noted that while the “major insights [it contained] are in many instances derived from psychoanalytic work,” he would occasionally “have to place strictures upon the exuberance of the theorizing … Yet this criticalness will not in the least diminish our indebtedness to Freud and to psychoanalysis” (pp. 352–3). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 144

Categorization

• XREF: Characterizes Allport’s method of selective theoretical borrowing, useful context for assessing which Allport claims the vault should treat as load-bearing. — connects to: Fromm pioneered a psychoanalytic reading of verbatim questionnaire responses — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 391
• corroborated: 7 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 144; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 144