• Rigid adherence to conventional, middle-class values.
• Submissive, uncritical attitude toward idealised moral authorities of the in-group.
• Opposition to the subjective, the imaginative, the tender-minded.
• Tendency to…condemn, reject, and punish people who violate conventional values.
• The belief in mystical determinants of the individual’s fate….
• Preoccupation with the dominance- submission, strong-weak, leader-follower dimension; identification with power figures….
• Generalized hostility, vilification of the human.
• The
disposition to believe that wild and dangerous things go on in the
world; the projection outwards of unconscious emotional impulses.
• Exaggerated concern with sexual “goings-on.”
From a March 23, 2017 New York Review piece on the Frankfurt School: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/23/frankfurt-school-headquarters-neo-marxism/
Sunday, March 05, 2017
The Authoritarian Personality
Labels:
authoritarianism,
capitalism,
criticism,
fascism,
Freud,
Marx,
personality,
politics
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