Fromm interpreted the Jewish Sabbath through the Freudian father-killing and Oedipal framework.

Evidence

Fromm trained as a psychoanalyst, married Frieda Reichmann, and opened his own practice in 1927. In the same year, he published his first extended study in depth-psychology, Der Sabbat' (The Sabbath’). He later claimed to have been a good Freudian all through my student days', and in the essay he came to the conclusion that The Sabbath originally served as a reminder of the killing of the father and the winning of the mother; the commandment not to work served as a penance for original sin and for its repetition through regression to the pre-genital stage.’ His knowledge of the sociology of religion and psychoanalysis, and his acquaintance with Buddhism, Bachofen and Marx, meant that Fromm was able to go one step further than his humanist, Rabbinic models, Nobel and Rabinkow, and to become a socialist humanist who had freed himself from Orthodox Judaism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows an early instance of left-Freudian synthesis combining Freudian drive theory with Marxist class analysis.
• XREF: Connects to later Frankfurt School critical theory’s Freud-Marx synthesis and Adorno’s later anti-Freudian dissent. — connects to: Fromm read the Jewish Sabbath as a Freudian penance for original sin — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 213; Fromm was a practising analyst and left-Freudian synthesizer of Marx and Freud. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 213; The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Fromm was a practising analyst and left-Freudian synthesizer of Marx and Freud. #expands (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 213
• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed #responds-to (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984
• The Oedipal theory’s universality was challenged as ethnocentric by its critics. #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1360
• Freudian racism theory neglected Kleinian pre-Oedipal dynamics until Theweleit #corroborates (0.72)
• Deep South racism let whites project Oedipal fears onto blacks #exemplifies (0.72)
• Cultures select which kin relations become Oedipalized, so no single Oedipal form is universal. #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1367
• Colonized subjects’ dream imagery is literal social fact, not Oedipal symbol. #complicates (0.70)