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"Instead of solving the question of women's oppression, male society has so extended its own principle that the victims are no longer able even to pose the question".

While Adorno is mostly right in this passage about the ceasless ability of capitalism to absorb identity antagonisms into its stucture, as always, he vastly underestimates post war social politics. He cannot even concieve of the 2nd wave occuring.

"The rose-scents of Elysium, much too voluble to be credited with the experience of a single rose, smell of the tabacco-smoke in a magistrate's office, and the soulful moon on the backdrop was fashioned after the miserable oil-lamp by whose meagre light the student swots for his exam".

AHHHHH THIS IS SO HARD TO READ

On psychoanalytic free association: "The same movement of mind which was once to elevate its 'material' to a concept, is itself reduced to mere material for conceptual ordering. The ideas one has are just good enough to allow experts to decide whether their originator is a compulsive character, an oral type, or a hysteric."