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According to Dahmer, Freud's critical theory of culture has fallen into disrepute even among psychoanalysts. Dahmer feels that a psychology oriented toward
life history must be complemented by a more or less explicit theory of society. He outlines Freud's theory of institutions and his theory of the mass bond and of social crisis. The therapy of neurosis can be understood as the psychological version of a critique of pseudonatural (social) institutions, even though the critique is originally conceived along the dimensions of a philosophy of history.