Society compels laborers to sublimate diversionary drives into focused work

Evidence

The laborers must be fresh and concentrate as they look ahead, and must ignore whatever lies to one side. They must doggedly sublimate in additional effort the drive that impels to diversion. And so they become practical. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1409

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Weber’s Protestant-ethic proscription of diversion and Freud’s sublimation theory, which Horkheimer and Adorno deliberately fuse here. — connects to: Enlightened capitalism captures workers with diversions that dissipate their transcendence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89; Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382; Mass culture occupies workers’ leisure with content stamped by the labor process they endure (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Enlightened capitalism captures workers with diversions that dissipate their transcendence #expands (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 89
• Mass culture occupies workers’ leisure with content stamped by the labor process they endure #expands (0.90)
• Industrialized society eliminates floating street populations by absorbing people into organized work #expands (0.80) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 382