The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Cover of the German edition
AuthorWilhelm Reich
Original titleDie Massenpsychologie des Faschismus
LanguageGerman
SubjectFascism, authoritarianism, ideologically-oriented sexual repression[1][2]
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
September 1933
Published in English
1946
(translation based on the third, enlarged edition from August 1942)[3][4]
Media typePrint
ISBN978-0-374-50884-5
OCLC411193197

The Mass Psychology of Fascism[5] (German: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus) is a 1933 psychology book written by the Austrian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, in which the author attempts to explain how fascists and authoritarians come into power through their political and ideologically-oriented sexual repression on the popular masses.[1][2]

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  2. ^ a b Pavón-Cuéllar, David (2017). "Marxism, psychoanalysis, and critique of psychology – Reich: subversive Freudo-Marxist proposals against adaptive psychological concessions of burgeois psychoanalysis". Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology?. Concepts for Critical Psychology (1st ed.). New York and London: Routledge. pp. 125–129. ISBN 9781138916586. LCCN 2016032101.
  3. ^ John C. Conger; John P. Conger (2005). Jung and Reich: The Body as Shadow. North Atlantic Books. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-55643-544-7.
  4. ^ Borch, Christian (2012). The Politics of Crowds: An Alternative History of Sociology. Cambridge University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-107-00973-8.
  5. ^ http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/archivos_pdf/masspsychology_fascism.pdf [bare URL PDF]