Between Marxism and Psychoanalysis

Antifascism and Antihomosexuality in the Frankfurt School

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3637592
AutoresRandall Halle (0000-0002-7715-3895, Rice University, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume29
Fascículo4
Páginas295-318
Data de publicação1995-11-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v29n04_02
PMID8655974
OpenAlexW2318864734
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

In their efforts to utilize individualist psychoanalysis as a tool for understanding mass behavior, the social theorists associated with the Frankfurt School increasingly came to rely on a static, essentializing construction of sexuality which ultimately led to an equation of fascism and homosexuality. Heretofore unexamined in studies of the Frankfurt School, this equation will here serve as the starting point for a fundamental critique of the concept of sexuality developed by this influential circle of Marxist thinkers. While directed at the concept of sexuality, such a critique more importantly 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 will first trace the introduction of psychoanalysis into Critical Theory through Erich Fromm and then investigate the extent of Fromm's influence on the concept of sexuality propounded by his colleagues, especially Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno. Finally, it will take up a frequently overlooked essay by Herbert Marcuse which promoted a vision of sexuality radically different from that of his associates

Critical theory · Epistemology · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Individualism · Marxist philosophy · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer theory · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology