SOURCE: Adorno, Theodor, and Elias Canetti. “Elias Canetti: Discussion with Theodor W. Adorno.” Thesis Eleven, no. 45 (1996): 1-15.

In the following interview, originally conducted in 1962, Canetti and Adorno discuss psychoanalysis and crowd psychology.

[Adorno]: I know that in many respects you differ strongly from Freud and are very critical toward him. In one methodological respect, however, you are surely in agreement with what he often emphasized, above all when psychoanalysis was still in its formative stage and had not yet become something completely reified, that he had no intention of rejecting or disputing the results of other established sciences but wanted to add what they had neglected. This neglect and its causes he considered extremely essential, since it possesses a crucial character for human life together, just as is the case for you. You could, I believe, elucidate this best through the central importance that the question of death...