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Donald Trump as Authoritarian Populist: A Frommian Analysis

  • In this article, I discuss in detail how Erich Fromm’s categories can help de-scribe Trump’s character, or >temperament,< a word used to characterize a major flaw in Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and his rule as President by the end of the first year. In >The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness< (1973), Fromm engages in a detailed analysis of the authoritarian character as sadistic, excessively narcissistic, malignantly aggressive, vengeably destructive, and necrophiliac, personality traits arguably applicable to Trump. In the following analysis, I will systematically deploy key Frommian socio-psychoanalytic categories to Trump and his followers to show how they can illuminate Trump and authoritarian populism.

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Author:Douglas Kellner
Parent Title (English):Jeremiah Morelock (Ed.): Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, London (University of Westminster Press) 2018, pp. 71-82.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2018
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Kellner_D_2018
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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