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