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1/ "...the so-called Frankfort school of predominantly Jewish intellectuals...originating during the Weimar period in Germany." - p 152 
2/ "The first generation of the Frankfurt school were all Jews..." #cultureofcritique #FrankfurtSchool
3/ "By the early 1930s the University of Frankfurt had become a bastion of the academic left..."
2/ "...gentiles were genetically prone to being slaves of their senses and prone to brutality." #cultureofcritique
3/ "...there is a genetic basis for Jewish-gentile differences in IQ and high-investment parenting..." #cultureofcritiqute
1/ "...psychoanalysis officially denied the importance of biologically based ethnic differences..." #cultureofcritique #Freud
2/ "In the promised utopian societies of the future, the category of Jew-gentile would be of no theoretical importance..."
1/ "...bear the mantle of science but deemphasize the importance of conflicts of interest between Jews and gentiles." #cultureofcritique
2/ "...anti-Semitism is viewed as a form of gentile psychopathology...stemming ultimately from a pathology-inducing society."
3/ "...psychoanalysis...'the ultimate weapon against fascism, anti-Semitism, and every other anti-liberal bias'" #cultureofcritique
1/ "T.W. Adorno...utilized the language of social science...in the service of...patholigizing gentile culture..." #cultureofcritique
2/ "Eventually psychoanalysis became state supported in Germany, with every German citizen eligible for up to 300 hours of psychoanalysis"
3/ "...Mitscherlich believed that only psychoanalysis held out the hope of redemption for the German people:" #cultureofcritique
1/ "Psychoanalysis has proved to be a veritable treasure trove of ideas for those intent on developing critiques of Western culture."
3/ "...the vast majority of the New York intellectuals...strongly identified as Jews..." #cultureofcritique
1/ "...Freud also reiterates his conviction that religion is nothing more than neurotic symptomatology." #cultureofcritique #Freud
2/ "All religions may be symptoms of neurosis, but Freud clearly believed Judaism to be an ethically and intellectually superior form..."
3/ "...'The Christian religion did not keep to the lofty heights of spirituality to which the Jewish religion had soared' (Freud 1939, 112)"
1/ "...Freud had a great deal of hostility to Western culture, especially the Catholic Church and its ally, the Habsburg monarchy."
2/ "...Freud...proposes that he has been retracing the footsteps of Hannibal, the Semitic leader of Carthage against Rome..." #Freud
3/ "'...Hannibal and Rome symbolized the conflict between the tenacity of Jewry and the organization of the Catholic Church.'..." #Freud
1/ "Many early proponents viewed psychoanalysis as a redemptive messianic movement..." #cultureofcritique
3/ "...Jews were uniquely qualified to cure neurosis and act as the healers of humanity..." #cultureofcritique #Freud
1/ "...positive views of Judaism and negative views of gentile culture, the latter viewed as something to be conquered.." #cultureofcritique
2/ "Gentile society, and particularly the most salient institutions of gentile culture, were viewed stereotypically as evil."
3/ "Early on he described himself as a 'conquistador' rather than as a man of science." #cultureofcritique #Freud
"Freud took great pains to ensure that a gentile, Jung, would be the head of his psychoanalytic movement." #cultureofcritique
"'To put it very crudely, Freud needed a goy, and not just any goy but one of genuine intellectual stature and influence.'"
"...Freud...viewed psychoanalysis as subverting gentile culture." #cultureofcritique
1/ "Freud commented that he viewed gentiles as prone to 'ruthless egoism,' whereas Jews had a superior family and intellectual life."
2/ "Wortis then asked Freud if he viewed Jews as superior...Freud replied: '...nowadays...one has every reason to think them superior.'"
3/ "'My judgement of human nature, especially the Christian-Aryan variety, has had little reason to change.'" #cultureofcritique
1/ "As expected by social identity theory, Freud's strong sense of Jewish identity involved a deep estrangement from gentiles." - p 107
3/ "Freud thus had a powerful sense of...duty to work altruistically for the interests of the group." #cultureofcritique #Freud
1/ "Although he rejected religion, Freud...had a very strong Jewish identity. In a 1931 letter he described himself as a 'fanatical Jew.'"
3/ "On another occasion he wrote of 'strange secret longings' related to his Jewish identity..." #cultureofcritique
"But the vanguard of the movement over the last fifty years has remained predominantly Jewish as it was from the beginning."
"In 1906 all 17 members of the leadership of the movement were Jewish, and they strongly identified as Jews." #cultureofcritique
"...suggesting the percentage of psychoanalysts with a Jewish background was even higher than 62 percent." #cultureofcritique
'whereas everybody else had lost from the Revolution, the Jews, and they alone, had benefited from it' #cultureofcritique
"...Stalin had an interest in deemphasizing the role of Jews in the revolution, but for different reasons." #cultureofcritique
2/ "'Upon reflection, many concluded that they had always taken marriage to someone Jewish for granted.'" #cultureofcritique
3/ "...the CPUSA actively encouraged Jewish members to take gentile-sounding names." #cultureofcritique
"Jews continue to insist in indirect ways on their own uniqueness..." #cultureofcritique
"We have Jewish political reformers...ostensibly pressing for universalist goals...while organizing their own political clubs..."
"Universalism...a mechanism for Jewish continuity via crypsis or semi-crypsis..." #cultureofcritique
"Jewish group interest in developing a pluralistic society is of far more importance than mere economic self-interest" #cultureofcritique
"...long after the great majority of Jews were no longer in the working class." #cultureofcritique
"Jews constituted 80 percent of the students signing a petition to end ROTC at Harvard..." #cultureofcritique
"Adelson (1972) found that 90 percent of his sample of radical students at the University of Michigan were Jewish..." #cultureofcritique
