Racism recruits fragmented narcissistic personalities into oceanic oneness with the racial mass
Evidence
In either case, however, from a strictly psychodynamic viewpoint, the effect is the same and results in weak, fragmented narcissistic personality types who need to identify with strong leaders and lose themselves in a sense of oceanic oneness with the racial mass in order to maintain a precarious sense of identity and self-worth. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1417
Categorization
- DEFINE: Useful grounding of the psychodynamic mechanism by which individual fragmentation translates into mass racial identification.
- XREF: Echoes the Frankfurt School’s authoritarian-personality material (weak ego, strong-leader identification) elsewhere in the vault. — connects to: The uncanny in racism arises from the Other within the self — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1397; Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities; The narcissism-of-minor-differences concept has been revived to explain racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1382 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The uncanny in racism arises from the Other within the self
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1397 - Unconscious racism names how primordial feeling-structures become racialized
#corroborates(0.80) - The narcissism-of-minor-differences concept has been revived to explain racism
#corroborates(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1382 - Classic racisms located race as an external colonial invader threatening European homogeneity
#complicates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 359 - Outward racial rigidity masks internally contradictory individual subjectivities
#qualifies(0.72) - Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life
#expands(0.70)