[FRA:] Marcuse question

[FREDWELFARE at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2006 9:11:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
mpiscioneri at hotmail.com writes:

For as  far as I understand his logic of identity it is in the act of 
thinking-naming  that the tendency toward oppression emerges: the subsumption of 
particulars  under the universal and the denial of the particular's residual 
uniqueness  
I do not doubt that oppression could emerge from the use of particular  
categories, but I think what Adorno is getting at is the contrast  
emotion-thinking.  When emotion takes over, thought stops; the thoughtless  emotional 
reactions breed oppression.  This is a common theme is group  psychotherapy.  FrdW