Fromm criticized Reik’s psychoanalytic reading of Christ’s dogma

Evidence

Function of Religion’ (1930), to oppose the psychoanalytic interpretation of the dogma of Christ, based on the history of ideas, as it was presented by Theodor Reik. Reik had been one of Fromm’s teachers at the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis, and his essay Dogma und Zwangsidee' (Dogma and Compulsion’) had appeared in the journal Imago in 1927. Fromm’s criticism of Reik was similar to the criticism by Marx and Engels of their `spiritualistic’ Young Hegelian contemporaries: He takes the uniformness of the masses for granted, and he is not trying to examine them in their objective life-situation . — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 218

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Critical Theory study: Young Hegelian critique recurs across the Frankfurt School’s methodology.