In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. … It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.


Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda, The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (1982), p. 123

Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a...

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a...

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a...

In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a...