Those seeking to work out the relationship between Marxism and psychoanalysis have not been immune to the intellectual division of labor that severs … - Russell Jacoby

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.

Society has lost its memory, and with it, its mind. The inability or refusal to think back takes its toll in the inability to think.

The left once dismissed the market as exploitative; it now honors the market as rational and humane. The left once disdained mass culture as exploitative; now it celebrates it as rebellious. The left once honored independent intellectuals as courageous; now it sneers at them as elitist.