Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Belfagor; rassegna di varia umanità
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,3 (1994) 257-275
Keywords:
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Fromm, Erich,
;
Reich, Wilhelm,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Discusses the psychoanalytic approach to history, and specifically to racism and Nazism in the works of Freud ("Moses and Monotheism, " 1934-38), Reich ("The Mass Psychology of Fascism, " 1933), and Fromm ("Escape from Freedom, " 1941). Freud saw in Nazism the idealization of the leader, while racism was the "narcissism of small differences." For Reich, Nazism was an expression of irrationalism, as Stalinism was, and racism a radicalization of the fear of eros. Fromm spoke of the need to place one's personal freedom in the hands of the leader, and saw Hitler's antisemitism as an expression of self-destructing sado-masochism.
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