The Anatomy of Prejudices

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

  • Winner of a 1996 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award of the Association of American Publishers, Psychology Category

Prologue

Introduction: Studying Prejudices

I. A Critique of Pure Overgeneralization

Theories of Prejudice: A Preliminary Classification

What Happened to the "Prejudiced Personality"

Sociology Surveys the American Dilemma

The Prejudice That Is Not One

The Homophobias

II. Starting Again: Prejudices--In the Plural

"Social Character" in Search of a Theory

Character Types and Their Ideologies of Desire

Origins and Developmental Lines: Children and Prejudice

Adolescence and the Aims of Hatreds

Shared Prejudices, Societal Styles

Constructing Ideal Types

The Body and Soul of Narcissism

III. Current Ideologies: The Victims Speak

Varieties of Silencing

On Resistance to Hysterical Repression

Feeling the Contradictions of Sexism and Being the Targets of Homophobias

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl is a psychotherapist at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. She has written two well-known biographies, one of Hannah Arendt and one of Anna Freud, as well as Freud on Women, Creative Characters, and a collection of essays, Mind and the Body, and a novel, Vigil.