ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with ethnic hatred as a form of chronic resentment that emerges from relational experience rather than from instinct. Postulating an injured sense of self at the core of hatred, the discussion focuses on various protective or compensatory psychological phenomena. Illustrations from individual therapy cases and the broader cultural example of German anti-Semitism and its history are used to show how cultural conditions can breed and perpetuate hatred. The chapter raises questions about the ultimate motivational force that drives ethnic hatred and about the kind of resolution that would be needed to end its endless cycles.
