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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

New Books in Psychology

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Exploring the Frankfurt School: Psychology and Marxism Converge

This chapter explores the Frankfurt School, a group of philosophers and social scientists from the 1920s known for their unique Marxist critique and anti-Stalinist perspective. It delves into how the Great Depression altered their views, prompting an integration of Freudian psychology to analyze the unexpected rise of authoritarianism among the German working class.

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