2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other
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Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism
How can we explain racism using Freudian concepts? What are the implications and problems, if any, of using this type of analysis? Can psychoanalysis help answer the central concern of the Frankfurt School, ‘Why is mankind, instead of entering into a truly humane condition, sinking into new forms of barbarism?’