Fromm valued Lazarsfeld’s labor while doubting his psychological depth

Evidence

Lazarsfeld was born to a Jewish family in Vienna in 1901. Victor Adler, Rudolf Hilferding and Otto Bauer, among others, were frequent visitors to the family home. His mother, Sophie Lazarsfeld, had studied under Alfred Adler, and was a practising psychoanalyst and author of a series of aggressive books about women’s liberation. So he was familiar from an early age with Austrian Marxism and with the Adlerian version of psychoanalysis, which Austrian Social Democrats held in high esteem. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 675 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lazarsfeld’s milieu fused Austrian Marxism and Adlerian psychoanalysis from childhood — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 675; Collaborating with Critical Theorists let Lazarsfeld feel he had not betrayed his Marxist past.

Broader Connections

• Lazarsfeld’s milieu fused Austrian Marxism and Adlerian psychoanalysis from childhood #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 675
• Collaborating with Critical Theorists let Lazarsfeld feel he had not betrayed his Marxist past. #expands (0.75)