Fascism exploits a pre-existing split ego rather than creating it.

Evidence

What fascism does with respect to the personality is only to manipulate consciously and skillfully a break which itself is based on the most fundamental mechanisms of this society. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 312

Categorization

• XREF: Self, Society and the Colonial Subject frames the modern split between private and public selves as the core imperial condition — Horkheimer locates the same split in feudalism’s collapse.
• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the intuition that propaganda manufactures the fascist personality; the fractured ego is the given, and terror merely administers it.