Freud resolved the social bond as brotherly identification plus father-love

Evidence

Freud’s tortuous and somewhat hesitant elaboration of the distinction between identification and being in love is apparently resolved in a strict differentiation of functions in the constitution of the social bond: identification between brothers, love for the father. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 147

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Freud defined groups by shared object replacing the ego ideal — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 147; Freud grounded racial paranoia in displaced homosexual desire for the father — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1279

Broader Connections