Schiller transferred the division of labor from classes to the inner mind

Evidence

For the moment, suffice it to note that Schiller draws a signal advantage from his model: for the application of Cartesian logic—the logic of introspection, of the cogito—to the social organism already implies an identification between the inner and the outer; and Schiller’s profound originality, which will leave its mark on thinkers from Hegel to Freud, was to have reversed this identification and transferred the notion of the division of labor, of economic specialization, from the social classes to the inner functioning of the mind, where it assumes the appearance of a hypostasis of one mental function over against the others, a spiritual deformation which is the exact equivalent of the economic alienation in the social world outside. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 182

Categorization

• XREF: This interiorization of the division of labor is the hinge that runs through the Frankfurt School — Lukács’s reification, Adorno’s damaged life, Freud’s hypostatized mental functions. Core to the reader’s lineage-tracing project. — connects to: Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789; The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354; Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely paradigm-shifting move: diagnosing psychic ‘hypostasis’ as the exact analogue of economic alienation, collapsing the inner/outer Cartesian split the Frankfurt tradition keeps returning to.
• FICTION: The idea of a capitalist-style division of labor operative inside a single psyche is a powerful device for a story about self-fragmentation.

Broader Connections

• Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself #expands (0.92) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789
• The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class #complicates (0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267
• Collective worker consciousness extends from the factory to national and international division of labour #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 814