Adorno believed the anti-Semite’s psyche displays the cause of anti-Semitism.

Evidence

Adorno’s view was that the economic and social causes of anti-Semitism were demonstrated by the psyche of the anti-Semite; a consistent and thorough psychological study of the anti-Semite would lead to the `cultural anthropology’ of anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1840

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno claimed some anti-Semitic accusations had a real basis in Jewish traits — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1549; Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Horkheimer sought scientific proof that anti-Semitism is a symptom of hostility to democracy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1527 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim #expands (0.93) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147
• Adorno claimed some anti-Semitic accusations had a real basis in Jewish traits #qualifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1549