Fromm aimed to map social-psychological character types onto political party groupings

Evidence

At the beginning of 1936 Fromm expected three results to emerge from the analysis of the questionnaire on the working class: … 2 A goal which I should like to achieve, although I am not yet certain to what extent it will be possible, is the formulation of social-psychological types: hence, for example, the distinction between the petty-bourgeois rebellious' character type and the revolutionary character type. The extent to which various different types are to be found among the various political party groupings will have to be looked into: for example, to what extent the rebellious’ and the revolutionary types are found among Communists, to what extent the petty-bourgeois individualist type and a more social and collective type are found among the Nazis, and so on. It will certainly be necessary to differentiate more between the different character types than was done with my suggested division into three classes in the book [Studies on Authority and the Family]. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 697

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theory of the authoritarian personality later developed in The Authoritarian Personality, where character types correlate with political dispositions. — connects to: Fromm’s questionnaire method inferred unconscious character structure from the whole of each person’s answers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 699; The Lonely Crowd’s character typology derives from Fromm’s concept of social character — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1820; PRIZM’s cluster profiles linked consumption habits directly to party voting patterns — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 607

Broader Connections

• The Lonely Crowd’s character typology derives from Fromm’s concept of social character #corroborates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1820