Antisemitic stereotype is the nationalists’ own self-portrait and displaced guilt.

Evidence

Anti-Semitism is based on a false projection. It is the counterpart of true mimesis, and fundamentally related to the repressed form; in fact, it is probably the morbid expression of repressed mimesis. Mimesis imitates the environment, but false projection makes the environment like itself. For mimesis the outside world is a model which the inner world must try to conform to: the alien must become familiar; but false projection confuses the inner and outer world and defines the most intimate experiences as hostile. Impulses which the subject will not admit as his own even though they are most assuredly so, are attributed to the object—the prospective victim. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147 (#expands, via linked claim)

The Jews constituted the trauma of the knights of industry who had to pretend to be creative, while the claptrap of anti-Semitism announced a fact for which they secretly despised themselves; their anti-Semitism is self-hatred, the bad conscience of the parasite. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 132 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Capitalist anti-Semitism is the bourgeoisie’s self-hatred displaced onto Jews — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 132

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim #expands (0.85) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147
• Capitalist anti-Semitism is the bourgeoisie’s self-hatred displaced onto Jews #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 132