Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization revived the revolutionary Freud Horkheimer and Adorno had rejected.

Evidence

In much of the Institut’s work during the forties - The Authoritarian Personality, Dialektik der Aufklarung (Dialectic of the Enlightenment), Lowenthal’s Prophets of Deceit - Freud’s sobering influence was clearly evident. After the Institut’s return to Germany, this influence continued to play a meaningful role in both its theoretical and its empirical work. … It was, however, left to the member of the Institut’s inner circle who had had the least to do with the psychological speculations of the American period to attempt once again to reconcile Freud and Marx in an optimistic direction. In Eros and Civilization, Herbert Marcuse sought to rescue that “revolutionary Freud” whom Fromm had dismissed as a myth and whom Horkheimer and Adorno had turned into a prophet of gloom. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 364

Categorization

• SEED: Shows Marcuse as the outlier within the inner circle on psychoanalysis, and a possible essay angle on how the least psychologically-inclined member produced the most optimistic Freud-Marx synthesis.
• XREF: connects to: Marcuse and Neumann preserved Critical Theory’s political project that Horkheimer and Adorno abandoned — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 31; Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 864; Political crises pushed Marcuse toward Freud and a utopian radicalism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 367 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marcuse and Neumann preserved Critical Theory’s political project that Horkheimer and Adorno abandoned #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 31
• Political crises pushed Marcuse toward Freud and a utopian radicalism #expands (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 367
• Cold War pressures drove Horkheimer and Adorno apart from Marcuse’s leftism #complicates (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 864