ABSTRACT
In the 1950s, in the creation of the whole discourse on totalitarianism, people see this in the way that the anti-communist liberals described the authoritarian personality because the concept described so-called right-wing authoritarianism and not left wing. In that process Cold War liberals said: what liberalism is about is not being critical, because that's communism, that's what the Soviets do. Psychoanalysis was a fashion, and a very successful one at that, in America from about 1945 to 1970, because it took over the psychiatry departments of medical schools and other institutions, higher education institutions, and became identified with psychiatry. The French analyst Francois Roustang offers the clearest example of that argument, so that you could imagine undercover psychoanalysis going on alongside institutions that have been taken over or partially taken over. British psychoanalysis has the peculiar character of being generated by a very closely interlinked small group: for the first twenty-five years, unlike nearly every other psychoanalytic culture.
