Re: Reich & the Frankfurt School

[j laari <jlaari@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ciao

Could the reason for the statement have anything to do with this:
perhaps Reich had certain reasons not to collapse (or reduce) the
individual into the social, or vice versa? Ie. perhaps he saw real
contradictions between the social and the individual. Surely Adorno
wanted to maintain the difference and contradiction between them.
Versus Fromm, Mr. Anti-Dialectics.

Sincerely, Jukka L

PS. Still haven't answered to your earlier answers... However, there
are few lazier days to come.

> : Wiggerstrauss says Adorno "would begin with
> Reich, because Reich, unlike Fromm, maintained that individual psychology
> could not be smoothly transferred to social theory."  What's this all about?