Fromm’s shift to ‘authoritarian’ terminology dropped the psychosexual dimension requiring explanation

Evidence

But in the term authoritarian' the relation to instinctual structure and psychosexual development, and thus to a dimension whose development in response to society would require explanation, was no longer explicitly addressed. Authoritarian’ related instead to a certain type of society or state. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 617

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this terminological drift from ‘sadomasochistic’ to ‘authoritarian’ prefigure the Institute’s later, more sociologized conception that Adorno’s group research inherited?
• XREF: connects to: Fromm conflated sadomasochistic character with authoritarian society, losing the psychological dimension — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 616; Fromm replaced libido structure with Reich’s concept of character as adapted instinct — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 615; Fromm’s claim that contradiction turns libidinal forces into social dynamite was dogmatic — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 486