Freud debased reason by denying pleasure as its ultimate end

Evidence

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. The utterly pure reason of those who have divested themselves entirely of the ability ‘to conceive of an object even in its absence’, converges with pure unconsciousness, with feeble-mindedness in the most literal sense, for measured against the extravagantly realistic ideal of a datum freed of any categories, all knowledge is false, and true only where the question of truth or falsity cannot be applied. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freud held psychic life autonomous from cerebral causes — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 2055; Pure reason without emotion becomes mere tautology and unconsciousness — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 150

Broader Connections

• Pure reason without emotion becomes mere tautology and unconsciousness #complicates (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150