title: [Present day Marxist sociology and psychoanalysis].
abstract: The main common theme in psychoanalysis and Marxist sociology is the understanding that it is not consciousness that determines being, but being (spiritual, social) that determines consciousness. The different variations of Marxist movements today are in fact distant from Marx's theory of sociology. They have become representatives of utopian socialism, using anarchistic methods to achieve that aim. This development can only be understood as a social neurosis, with the narcistic frustation of the intellectual class as its cause, and grandiose claims, intolerance, dogmatic thinking and destructive behaviour as its symptoms. The only justified criticism of psychoanalysis from the pseudo-Marxist side is based on the imperfection and error in the analytical doctrine of superego. This should be replaced by the idea of conscious, subjective, emotional morality which clearly explains the aggression contained in social structures.
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012923:Social Class; D012950:Socialism; D012961:Sociology; D013475:Superego
vernacular_title: Das gegenwärtige marxistische Lager und die Psychoanalyse.