Adorno and Horkheimer linked Odyssey sacrifice themes to anti-Semitism’s psychology

Evidence

What we learn from this study will also be of some value for the [anti-Semitism] project since the idea of ritual sacrifice which Odysseus tries to overcome will probably play a dominant role in the psychology of Anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1355

Categorization

• XREF: Shows early convergence between the Dialectic of Enlightenment excursus and the Institute’s anti-Semitism project — a thread that later produced ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’. — connects to: Adorno and Horkheimer grounded anti-Semitism analysis in sadism and identification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1421; The Frankfurt School treated the Odyssey as the first anthropology of enlightened man — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1354
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did the ritual-sacrifice reading of Odysseus feed into the later ‘Elements of Anti-Semitism’ chapter?

Broader Connections

• Adorno and Horkheimer grounded anti-Semitism analysis in sadism and identification #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1421