Horney’s bestsellers co-opted culture-centered themes and justified Adorno’s critique of Fromm.

Evidence

Horney’s books on The Neurotic Personality of Our Time and New Ways in Psychoanalysis, published in 1937 and 1939 (the latter including an acknowledgement to Horkheimer in the foreword), were written for a broad public and were extremely successful. In Adorno’s eyes, Horney’s work justified his critique of Fromm. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1114

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader Frankfurt School story of dissension between Fromm and Adorno over revisionist psychoanalysis — a thread running through the institutional history.