Character, Society, and the Politics of Hope. A Comparative Look at the Theories of Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, Simon Fraser University Dissertation, British Columbia 1975.
- Presents a criticism of Freud's ahistorical, asocial, mechanistic, and materialistic view of mankind. In place of Freud's absolutistic and pessimistic confirmation of the destructive status quo by the death instinct, man's dynamic character is reinterpreted relativistically into theories of human progress based largely on Freud's theorizing.