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Between Marxism and Psychoanalysis – Antifascism and Antihomosexuality in the Frankfurt-School

  • In their efforts to utilize individualist psychoanalysis as a tool for understanding mass behavior, the social theorists of the Frankfurt School increasingly came to rely on a static, essentializing construction of sexuality which ultimately led to an equation of fascism and homosexuality. This equation here serves as the starting point for a fundamental critique of the concept of sexuality developed by this circle of Marxist thinkers. Such a critique opens up the underlying understanding of the social and psychological realms advanced by Critical Theory. Attending to the equation of homosexuality and fascism as the central point of concern, this essay traces the introduction of psychoanalysis into Critical Theory through Erich FROMM and investigates the extent of FROMM's influence on the concept of sexuality propounded by his colleagues, especially M. Horkheimer and T. W. Adorno. H. Marcuse's (1936) essay, >On Hedonism<, is highlighted.

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Author:Randall Halle
Parent Title (English):Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 29 (No. 4, 1995) pp. 295-317.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1995
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Halle_R_1995
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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