Horkheimer judged Marcuse’s Freud book worth adopting as an Institute project despite misgivings.

Evidence

By the way, Herbert’s work seems to me to be quite decent,’ he wrote to Adorno. `Although the psychological approach does not really appeal to us, there are so many splendid things in the book that we should accept it completely. Apart from publishing a series of extracts in the journal, a complete translation is definitely one of the most important things the planned “Series of German Translations” could produce.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Early split between Horkheimer-Adorno and Marcuse over psychoanalytic theory, anticipating the later break over Eros and Civilization’s politics. — connects to: Marcuse could oppose Horkheimer’s conceptions yet still revere the work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1250
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marcuse could oppose Horkheimer’s conceptions yet still revere the work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1250