Psychoanalysis’s postwar spread evidenced rising state coercion of individuals.
Evidence
Psychoanalysis and its enormous diffusion since the war, as the expression of the increased moral coercion exercised by the apparatus of State and society on single individuals, and of the pathological crisis determined by this coercion . — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1041
Categorization
- QUESTION: This compressed claim — that the diffusion of psychoanalysis indexes increased moral coercion and its pathological effects — is worth unpacking in the Frankfurt-School register (Adorno’s later use of Freud); worth chasing the mechanism Gramsci implies.
- XREF: connects to: Psychoanalysis gained popularity as a response to intensified state and social coercion on individuals. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1041
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychoanalysis gained popularity as a response to intensified state and social coercion on individuals. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1041
Broader Connections
- Psychoanalysis gained popularity as a response to intensified state and social coercion on individuals.
#corroborates(0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1041