Hatred unifies with its object through destruction, mirroring reconciliation.

Evidence

This they manage to do by pathological projection, since even hatred leads to unification with the object—in destruction. This is the negative aspect of reconciliation. Reconciliation is the highest notion of Judaism, and expectation is its whole meaning. The paranoiac reaction arises from inability to expect. The anti-Semites try to realize their negative absolute by their own power, and change the world into the hell which they always thought it was. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 159

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Hatred as a perverse mirror of reconciliation — destruction as unification — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting inversion, plus the claim that paranoia stems from inability to expect.
• XREF: The ‘inability to expect’ thesis connects to Erich Fromm’s authoritarian personality work and the psychological accounts of Fascist and Nazi psychology the Frankfurt School produced alongside this text. — connects to: Shared hatred of a common enemy powerfully binds people together. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5126; Hate is the free choice to abolish the Other rather than unite with it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1011; Self-hatred in the nihilist extends into hatred and destruction of all other men (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Shared hatred of a common enemy powerfully binds people together. #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5126
• Hate is the free choice to abolish the Other rather than unite with it. #contradicts (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1011
• Self-hatred in the nihilist extends into hatred and destruction of all other men #exemplifies (0.72)