Marcuse stopped short of Brown’s total repudiation of sexual differentiation.

Evidence

Here Marcuse did not go as far as Norman O. Brown in arguing that all sexual organization was repressive: see Brown’s Life Against Death, pp. 122ff. Marcuse refused to accept the total breakdown of differentiations of all sorts championed by Brown. “The unity of subject and object is a hallmark of absolute idealism; however, even Hegel retained the tension between the two, the distinction. Brown goes beyond the Absolute Idea: ‘Fusion, mystical, participation”’ (Negations, p. 138). — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1199