The Marxist Erick Fromm wrote: "Work done by Horkheimer in the thirties identified 'neurosis' [where children (people), accepting a "top-down" (patriarchal) system of authority, i.e. honoring the father's/Father's authority, i.e. obeying the father's/Father's commands and rules, accepting his/His facts and truth as is (by faith), are in a state of tension, i.e. prevented from becoming at-one-with their carnal nature , i.e., their impulses and urges of the 'moment' which are stimulated by and seeking one-ness with the world, i.e., "human nature,"with the parent's (and/or God's) authority, i.e. their commands, rules, facts, and truth restraining, inhibiting, or blocking them from 'satisfying' their carnal desires of the 'moment'] as a social product, in which the family was seen as a primary agent of repressive socialization.'" (Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man, in Stephen Eric Bronner, Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists)
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