Freudian analytic neutrality conceals an authoritarian respect for bourgeois taboos

Evidence

In that article Fromm had criticized Freud on the grounds that, behind the tolerance' of the indifferent’ and emotionally cold' analyst, there was a concealed respect for the social taboos of the bourgeoisie which had caused the patient's repressions in the first place. More or less unconsciously, the Freudian analyst was concealing an authoritarian, patricentric attitude. However, for the analytic situation to fulfil its purpose, more than mere neutrality’ was required: what was necessary was unconditional approval of the patient’s demand for happiness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1102

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapter material on Fromm’s left-Freudian project and the Institute’s Freud-Marx synthesis (ch8, ch23). — connects to: Authoritarian prejudice operates through Freudian projection of repressed sex and aggression onto minorities — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 548; Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74; Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Fromm rejected analytic neutrality as concealing bourgeois authoritarian values #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1102
• Authoritarian prejudice operates through Freudian projection of repressed sex and aggression onto minorities #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 548
• Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration #expands (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74
• Bourgeois tolerance functions as a mask preserving the status quo #corroborates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 342
• Bourgeois class behavior explains the subjective key to fascism #corroborates (0.72) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1421