On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:32:26 -0700, Christopher D. Green wrote: >Mike Palij wrote: >>Wasn't Else Frankel-Brunswick supposed to provide the >>descriptiion of the psychological mechanisms (clearly >>psychoanalytic) that presumably would explain where >>authoritarian personality tendencies came from? I'm not >>familiar with her background but her follow-up in Christie & >>Jahoda's critical evaluation of the Authorian Personality >>research project seems to make her the authority on these matters. > >I don't know anything about Frenkel-Brunswik apart from >her work in _The Authoritarian Personality_. I was flipping >through the book this morning, and it didn't seem strongly >Freudian (though broadly psychodynamic, which is a different >matter IMHO), but I may have missed something. There is >no mention of Freud in the index (though I only have the >abridged ed.) and there are only three minor citations to Freud >in the references.
I've only read the first couple of chapters in the unabridged edition so I can't really say too much about the presentation of psychoanalytic explanations which occur later in the book. However, there is a name index and here are some counts; Freud: Name Index: appears on 11 pages References: 3 works cited Fromm: Name Index: 9 pages References: 2 works Frenkel-Brunswick: Name Index: 9 pages References: 9 works Perhaps it is best to say that it is more broadly psychoanalytic (or, to use Altemeyer's phrase, "Fromm-Berkeleyan") than Freudian. >According to http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/frenkel.html, >she studied with Karl & Charlotte Buehler (who, although in >Vienna, were closer intellectually to the Wuerzburg school -- >Kuelpe, Marbe, Watt, Ach, etc. -- than to Freud, I think), and >then she married Egon Brunswik, who was close to the Gestalt >school (and who came to influence E. C. Tolman at Berkeley). Well, to some people perhaps even being a tiny bit Freudian still makes one Freudian (i.e., a variation on the "one-drop" theory). -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
