Freudian categories grounded the interpretation and its defense against charges of arbitrariness.

Evidence

Social phenomena were to be clarified using Freudian categories, through an interpretation of the material which met the accusation that it was merely arbitrary by closely following extensive quotations, which confidently professed its distinctness from orthodox social research, and which concluded by producing a typology. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 498

Categorization

• XREF: Continues the Institut’s fusion of psychoanalysis with empirical material established in the Workers’ Study and The Authoritarian Personality. — connects to: Freud traced scapegoating to conflict between a punitive superego and repressed id impulses — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1562; Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74; Psychoanalytic theory can justify contradictory characterizations of the same nation — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 344 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: The defense against ‘arbitrary’ interpretation was textual fidelity — staying close to quotations — then culminating in a typology.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Freud traced scapegoating to conflict between a punitive superego and repressed id impulses — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1562; Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74; Psychoanalytic theory can justify contradictory characterizations of the same nation — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 344 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Freudian mental categories are historical products of bourgeois subject disintegration #complicates (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 74
• Dialectical criticism lets each work dictate its own interpretive categories #complicates (0.74) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 678