The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Cover of the German edition | |
| Author | Wilhelm Reich |
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| Original title | Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Fascism, authoritarianism, ideologically-oriented sexual repression |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | September 1933 |
Published in English | 1946 (translation based on the third, enlarged edition from August 1942) |
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| ISBN | 978-0-374-50884-5 |
| OCLC | 411193197 |
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (German: Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus) is a 1933 psychology book written by the Austrian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, in which the author attempts to explain how fascists and authoritarians come into power through their political and ideologically-oriented sexual repression on the popular masses.