Denouncing the personality as lie makes the residue easier to dominate

Evidence

But its removal also makes the residue all the easier to dominate. This is flagrantly apparent in psycho-analysis. It incorporates personality as a lie needed for living, as the supreme rationalization holding together the innumerable rationalizations by which the individual achieves his instinctual renunciation, and accommodates himself to the reality principle. But precisely in demonstrating this, it confirms man’s non-being. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 77

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the double-bind structure in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment — critique that removes ideology also removes the resistance it housed. — connects to: Denying others’ subjectivity reduces the denier to a thing — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 618

Broader Connections

• Denying others’ subjectivity reduces the denier to a thing #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 618