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Russell Jacoby est un historien américain.

✵ 23. avril 1945
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Russell Jacoby: Citations en anglais

“The inner connection between a positivism of numbers and quantities and one of human values and qualities is the excision of a critical distance and theory. Both surrender to different faces of reality—its facts or its ideology—and both stay clear and clean of antagonisms and contradictions.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 61

“As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud’s book, it evinces “the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.””

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 41

“Instead of ideologically synchronizing contradictions, or assigning them to separate halls of the academy, critical theory seeks to articulate them.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 73

“No matter how heretical the neo- and post-Freudians imagined they were in theorizing about the “values,” “insecurities,” “goals” of the individual, they were safely following the official ideology of the private and autonomous individual and consumer.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 26

“As Comte wrote, the task of positivism was to “imbue the people with the feeling that … no political change is of real importance.” … As Marx wrote, to it “everything that exists is an authority.””

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 60-61

“In the name of a new theory past theory is declared honorable but feeble; one can lay aside Freud and Marx—or appreciate their limitations—and pick up the latest at the drive-in window of thought.”

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

“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. … The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 1

“Skinner … decrees … the abolition of freedom by way of behavior modification and a souped-up environment, in the name of a new “scientific” value—survival. The irony is that freedom and individuality have only existed in their mangled bourgeois form; to propose junking them in the name of survival is to propose the very society we now have, one that subsists exactly by an ethos of survival, paying lip service to freedom and the individual while rewarding the victors and punishing the victims. Freedom and individuality have never been more than adornments for an ugly environment of survival of the fittest.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), pp. 70-71

“In accepting the bourgeois form of reason as Reason itself, Roszak does his bit to perpetuate its reign.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 10

“What must be acknowledged, for example the prevalence of anxiety, is grafted onto man’s essence as if it grew there. Such is the tried and tested method of the apologist: what is social in origin is presented as natural.”

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

“Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rules unchallenged; to be transcended it must first be remembered.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 5

“Multiculturalism is not the opposite of assimilation, but its product.”

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Source: The End of Utopia (1999), p. 49

“Endless discussions of multiculturalism proceed from the unsubstantiated assumption that numerous distinct “cultures” constitute American society. Only a few historians or observers even consider the possibility that the opposite may be true: that the world and the United States are relentlessly becoming more culturally uniform, not diverse.”

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Source: The End of Utopia (1999), pp. 47-48

“The free market in ideas has never been free, but always a market. To undo this necessitates not commissars and censors but critical intelligence loyal to an objective notion of truth. If there is a repressive tolerance, then there is also a liberating intolerance.”

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

“The neat division between roles and real selves reduces society to a masquerade party. Yet not even plastic surgery can heal the psychic disfigurements. The social evil reaches into the living fibers; people not only assume roles, they are roles.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 68

“Though the ancient world understood that work was a curse, modern industrial society spreads its gospel. The working class, Lafargue hopelessly hoped, must reject the work fetish.”

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Source: The End of Utopia (1999), p. 26

“[Freud’s] concepts are radical in their pursuit of society where it allegedly does not exist: in the privacy of the individual. Freud undid the primal bourgeois distinction between private and public, the individual and society. … Freud exposed the lie that subject was inviolate; he showed that at every point is was violated.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 26

“The sundering of a scientific from a poetic truth is the primal mark of the administrative mind.”

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Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 9

“The application of planned obsolescence to thought itself has the same merit as its application to consumer goods; the new is not only shoddier than the old, it fuels an obsolete social system that staves off its replacement by manufacturing the illusion that it is perpetually new.”

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

“The general loss of memory is not to be explained solely psychologically; it is not simply childhood amnesia. Rather it is social amnesia—memory driven out of mind by the social and economic dynamic of this society.”

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

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