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To explore the relationship between society and sexuality, which is overlooked in the later phases of critical theory, the role of sexuality in the writings of Wilhelm Reich and Erich FROMM is explored. Reich uniformly celebrates and strategically deploys sexuality to critique Western capitalistic society while FROMM lacks a clear and consistent utilization of sexuality. Reich uses the theories of Karl Marx in his predominately Freudian framework of sexual repression in trying to address the problem of repression and suppression in Western capitalism. FROMM, on the other hand, puts the theories of Sigmund Freud into his Marxist approach to authority, the family, and ideology. Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and Max Horkheimer largely ignored sexuality in their later writings, but instead used Freudian concepts in their theory of the authoritarian personality. 17 References. Adapted from the source document.