Long-hoped-for political victories can leave theorists emotionally unmoved when absorbed in their own work.

Evidence

Adorno was shocked to find that the collapse of Nazism which he had so long been hoping for hardly affected him at all. He admitted to Horkheimer that his libido' had in the meantime become more involved with our own concerns than with the course of world history, which those concerns are supposed to be resisting’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 405

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A rare first-person admission that the libido migrates from world history into the professional apparatus meant to resist it — a self-diagnosis of co-optation.
• XREF: connects to: Theorists’ political loyalties and productive interests can violently contradict each other — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 236
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Theorists’ political loyalties and productive interests can violently contradict each other — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 236