Freud and Marxism.
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ALB – I think you were one of the editors who rejected my summary of the theory for publication in the Standard many years ago – I’m surprised that you forgot. Here’s the link: https://wezselecta.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-death-instinct.html#comment-form
Oh No — Not Philip Zimbardo also!
- BD: If anyone is interested in similar ideas, Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment and similar studies … give food for thought about authoritarianism. Don’t personally agree with Zimbardo’s take on his findings and the alternative interpretation by Erich Fromm is quite interesting, pointing out that the majority of the prison officer students did not join in the abusive processes, although they did not intervene.
When I mentioned “Stanley Milgram and his ilk” I intended to corral celebrity psychologist Philip Zimbardo alongside him. The antidote for both of them is Rutger Bregman’s Humandkind — read Bregman’s exposé of Philip Zimbardo’s fraudulence/hoax in Chapter 7.
By chance, this came up in my podcast stream:
It mentions Pannekoek’s “Marxism and Psychology” which examines the relationship between Marxism and Freudianism. https://aaap.be/Pages/Pannekoek-en-1938-Marxism-And-Psychology.html
Also, my supervisor for the last 4 years was a respected Adorno scholar. I still don’t know that much about Adorno but this review details the relation between Adorno and the Holocaust. Adorno refers to it as providing a new categorical imperative – we should arrange our actions so that the holocaust doesn’t happen again. No mention of the “death instinct”
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/adorno-s-practical-philosophy-living-less-wrongly/
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