s shared social component, the ideas of Freud and Marx are marked far more by differences. Each would critique the other in terms of his own assumptions. For example, "To the psychoanalyst [the] . . . Communist may simply be acting out on the intellectual level the unconscious impulses that really move them" (Berger 51). On the other hand, "psychoanalysis may be . . . to the Communist an avoidance of the realities of society" (Berger 51). Because of these basic different assumptions, the views of Freud and Marx (or psychoanalysis and communism) have entirely different explanations for why and how human beings adapt. Both Marx and Freud believe that the individual is a prisoner, Marx to the forces of production, and Freud to unconscious impulses. Both believe that until the individual is freed he cannot adapt as a human being, but only as an entity unaware of the fact that he is being pushed and pulled by forces beyond his control. If an individual is such a victim to such forces, he can hard
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