Russell Jacoby citations

Russell Jacoby est un historien américain.

✵ 23. avril 1945
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“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 23-25
Contexte: The Adlerians, in the name of “individual psychology,” take the side of society against the individual. … Adler’s later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. “Our science … is based on common sense.” Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

“The individual, before it can determine itself, is determined by the relations in which it is enmeshed. “It is a fellow-being before it is a being.””

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 34, quote is from Institut für Sozialforschung

“The child ego, once nurtured and scarred by the family is no longer nurtured but simply integrated.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 39

“The post-Freudians … have fallen victim to the ravages of the intellectual division of labor.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 58

“The professional philosopher in keen competition with the natural scientist resolves to be more certain about less.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 59

“The story of the rise, fall, and forgetting of the individual is the tale of the rise, fall, and repression of psychoanalysis.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 38

“Existentialism is bourgeois ideology in the hour of its defeat.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 63

“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31

“Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inability to think.”

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 3-4

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