Fromm’s preferred therapy rejected Freud’s authority and adjustment-oriented goals

Evidence

What made them better was their therapeutic innovation of having the analyst face the patient in a one-to one, more egalitarian relationship. Fromm’s abandonment of the Oedipus complex meant that the role of transference was greatly minimized in the technique he now favored. Groddeck and Ferenczi were also less rigid on the question of payment, which they sometimes waived. In contrast to Freud’s patricentric, authoritarian, inhumane “tolerance,” they offered a therapy that went beyond the short-sighted goal of adjustment to the moral inhumanities of contemporary society. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 344

Categorization

• XREF: Fromm’s therapeutic egalitarianism prefigures his later break from the Institute’s critical theory; connects to his critique of adjustment to contemporary society that the Institute itself shared. — connects to: Fromm’s early social psychology critiqued Freud’s purely libidinal account of authority — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 417; Fromm saw psychoanalysis as filling Marxism’s missing link between ideology and economic base. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 329; Fromm rejected analytic neutrality as concealing bourgeois authoritarian values — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1102 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fromm’s early social psychology critiqued Freud’s purely libidinal account of authority #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 417
• Fromm saw psychoanalysis as filling Marxism’s missing link between ideology and economic base. #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 329