Repressed fear among persecuted Jews stems from insight into counter-measures’ double edge.

Evidence

The reasons for his acting like those who have perished and his repressing his fears are, particularly in the Jewish case, his secret insight into the fatality of the process, the overwhelming forces involved and the knowledge that in such a situation each counter-measure is double-edged. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 386

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact theory of why the doomed appear passive: each remedy cuts both ways, so inaction is itself knowledge rather than ignorance.
• XREF: connects to: Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others; Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Anti-Semitism rationalizes resentment against the Jews for refusing the instinctual repression of settled work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others; Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147; Anti-Semitism rationalizes resentment against the Jews for refusing the instinctual repression of settled work — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitism rationalizes resentment against the Jews for refusing the instinctual repression of settled work #complicates (0.73) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 298
• Anti-Semitism projects the subject’s own repressed impulses onto the victim #complicates (0.72) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 147