• Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.

    Theodor Adorno: Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.
    Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno (2002). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.26, Stanford University Press