ABSTRACT
The interpretative thrust of Freudianism and Marxism had an increasing influence over manifold discursive contexts, especially in the years from the early 1960s to the middle 1970s. The variable of “projectivity” provides the degree to which projection as a mechanism operates in the authoritarian personality. Authoritarianism suggests the camouflage of a sadistic attitude (SA) under a socially acceptable form. Under the palpable impact of Freudian theories, the emphasis on the infantilism of the SA and Martin implies a perverse deferment of the oedipal conflict that seems to explain their allure by fascism. The Nazi bureaucracy of the “Final Solution” was the most horrific revelation of banal form of evil. Fascist politics are sexualized, in spite of the strong anti-erotic profile of fascism’s historical occurrence or Nazism’s ideological programme. The authoritarian personality scale’s aim to evaluate the underlying authoritarianism of the typical pro-fascist individual reflected this link between ideology and prejudice.
