[lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons!

[joanna bujes]

I don't know about parents withholdling "love and affection." I think
it would be truer to say that a lot of people are not capable of 
expressing or
feeling love. Some of them are parents.

Joanna

Miles Jackson wrote:


>On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, John Lacny wrote:
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>>Well, there you have it, Wojtek has come right out
>>and said that he subscribes to Adorno's "Authoritarian
>>Personality" thesis. I think maybe he's right, though.
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>It's not really authoritarian personality theory.  Adorno
>suggested that the creation of an authoritarian personality
>is a psychodynamic process:
>1. parents withold love and affection
>2. child represses hostility and resentment in unconscious
>3. child indirectly expresses this hostility via the
>development of an authoritarian personality: slavish
>devotion to authority, dichotomous thinking, law and
>order mentality, generalized prejudice.
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>Wojtek's argument was more straightforward, a kinda
>functionalist socialization argument.
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>Miles
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