Psychoanalysis itself was born from sublimated bourgeois political frustration

Evidence

Schorske’s discussions of fin-de-siècle Vienna are also noteworthy in stressing the way in which the political frustra­ tions of Austrian liberalism were sublimated not only, for example, in the art of the Secession, but also in Freudian psychoanalysis. This raises the broader question of the politics of Modernism, to which I now turn. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Extends Schorske’s causal reading from visual art to psychoanalysis, then pivots into the book’s next section on the politics of modernism. — connects to: Freud’s turn to the death instinct paralleled the historical decline of the bourgeois family — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 355; Psychoanalysis normalizes patients into a sick society rather than curing it — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 674; Depression as identity crisis began with the bourgeoisie. — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 262