Psychoanalysis’s undisciplined status made the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized science easier

Evidence

The Horkheimer circle never attempted to rescue the various scientific disciplines from the grasp of positivism and the system of bourgeois academic scholarship. Instead, they showed growing contempt for the sciences as well as for positivist philosophy of science. This was made easier by the fact that Freudian psychoanalysis, in the way in which it had been presented in its classic period, could not be classified as a specialized scientific discipline. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalysis justified the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized academic disciplines; The Frankfurt School’s contempt for science stemmed partly from Freudian psychoanalysis’ non-disciplinary status. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 757; Frankfurt theorists believed skipping specialized disciplines produced better insights than disciplinary work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 206 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Psychoanalysis justified the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized academic disciplines; The Frankfurt School’s contempt for science stemmed partly from Freudian psychoanalysis’ non-disciplinary status. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 757; Frankfurt theorists believed skipping specialized disciplines produced better insights than disciplinary work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 206 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School’s contempt for science stemmed partly from Freudian psychoanalysis’ non-disciplinary status. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 757
• Psychoanalysis justified the Frankfurt circle’s contempt for specialized academic disciplines #expands (0.92)