The psychological focus of the series deferred to American individualist re-education credo

Evidence

The emphasis on subjective, psychological aspects was to be explained by their interest in providing practical help. Fighting prejudice meant `re-education’, and individuals and their psychology were the point of departure for this. This was deferring to a typically American credo. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1752

Categorization

• XREF: This tension between psychoanalytic-psychological framing and structural analysis echoes the critique of postwar ‘therapeutic’ models in Christopher Lasch’s writing on the culture of narcissism.