Fascization of personality: psychological analysis
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of the work is to study the traits of self-awareness, moral attitudes and thinking of a personality influenced by fascist ideology. The author believes that the reform of moral philosophy undertaken by I. Kant played a certain role in the creation of this ideology. Kant rejects the notion that human consciousness (mind) has any form of internal connection with anything transcendent (God, ideas in the Platonic sense, etc.). The "categorical imperative" is the declaration of forcing oneself to "believe" in norms that are self-imposed. This creates the basis for a sense of being chosen. The denial of Self-reflection, declared by Kant, leads to the "encapsulation" of the "I", which manifests itself, among other things, in the feeling of being a victim. The false sense of being a victim becomes the central pseudo-moral element of the fascist worldview, embracing entire groups – the nation, etc., which becomes the basis of group egoism. The cognitive features of a fascist personality are underestimated. The denial of transcendental factors in thinking correlates with the blocking of mental operations of generalization and abstraction, which closes the possibility of understanding the essential equality between people, makes thinking static and incoherent, and "preserves" personality within the fascist ideology built on the principle of inequalities.
Author: Яновский, Михаил
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930827278
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