Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Antisemitismus
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1993) 58-100
Keywords:
Antisemitism Psychological aspects
Abstract:
Explains antisemitism as a mass psychosis analogous to paranoia. Notes that the individual antisemite is not psychotic, but by merging into the mass, he is able to indulge the infantile drive to devour the object. Moreover, he solves his ambivalence toward his parents by splitting it into love for the good leader and hatred for the evil Jew. Like paranoid psychotics, antisemites project onto the Jews crimes of which they themselves are guilty. The Pesach lamb which the Jews devoured is seen as a symbol of Christ, ritual murder, and host desecration - as shedding the blood of Christ, which Christians themselves devour in the Eucharist. The Nazi claim that Jews defile Aryan blood is a variant of the age-old blood accusation. Nazi propaganda has spread antisemitism in Europe and in the U.S. Long-term prevention lies in education and social reform. In the short term, incitement to antisemitism must be made a punishable crime.
Note:
Translated from "Anti-Semitism; a Social Disease" (1946) 33-78. Appeared in German in "Psyche" 32 (1978), and in his collection of essays "Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen" (1993) 254-288.
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