Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Psychohistory Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
23,3 (1995) 259-281
Keywords:
Rockwell, George Lincoln,
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
A psychoanalytical study of the personality of the founder of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967). Posits that Rockwell's narcissistic-paranoidal fantasies came to be expressed in the public forum as extremist, racist/antisemitic ideology and, conversely, his extremist ideology was a vehicle for the expression of his archaic, narcissistic fantasies. Rockwell's avid anti-communist and antisemitic tendencies were fueled during the early 1950s by the anti-communist hysteria that spread throughout the country. His reading of "Mein Kampf" triggered his revelatory conversion to Nazism. He became known as a demagogue, propagandizer, hatemonger, and expert racist headline grabber. Rockwell was shot and killed in August 1967 by a former aide in his organization. States that he is a representative type of political figure active today in the racist far-right political arena.
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