Nova direita brasileira e (re)politização da personalidade autoritária: Um estudo psicossociológico.

In the research that led to this article we pursued to identify and analyse the regimes of identification present in part of Brazilian new political right to discuss the accusations of fascism that have been assigned to it. For this purpose, besides a theoretical and bibliographical survey about the topics of mass psychology and authoritarian personality inspired by Freud and Adorno's ideas, we carried out the lurking procedure, a technique of data collection associated to netnography. So, we regularly followed the interactions in the comments box of the Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) Facebook page, to finally proceed with the content analysis. In conclusive terms, we validate the notion of fascism as an analytical category possible to apply to the abovementioned social tendencies, and we defend that what has been happening in nowadays national politics may be read as the (re)politicization of a pre-existing authoritarian personality understood here as an ideological and psychological system deeply bound to the development of modern capitalist societies, constitutively inclined to prejudice, discrimination and domination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]