Propaganda: Psychoanalysis in Reverse

Monday, April May 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Hallowed Grounds Café
Rescheduled from May 6

*Adorno, "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda"
*Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (selections TBD)

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This five-part reading group will examine Adorno's psychoanalytic writings on the following
themes:

Commodity Aesthetics
Character and Capitalism
Propaganda: Psychoanalysis in Reverse
Prejudice: A Social Disease
Art and Fantasy

Readings will be primarily drawn from Adorno's extensive work in social psychology, as well as Marx, Freud, Thomas Mann and psychoanalysts who were his contemporary.