The Social Implications of Freudian “Revisionism”  

Psychoanalysis has changed its function in the intellectual culture of our time, in accordance with the fundamental social changes that occurred during the first half of the century. The collapse of the liberalistic era, the spreading totalitarian trend and the …



Language And Technological Society  

Communication in and about daily performances, relationships, arrangements is ordinarily “non-controversial”: it takes things for granted. The world is established, and one has to put up with it; the common projects and aspirations do not essentially question it and do …



A Reply to Erich Fromm  

In trying to refute the argument of my article “The Social Implications of Freudian ‘Revisionism’” (DISSENT, Summer 1955), Erich Fromm has constructed a thesis which I did not state ( “The Human Implications of Instinctivistic ‘Radicalism’” by Erich Fromm, DISSENT, …





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