The Origins of Totalitarianism
These processes also fostered ethnocentric beliefs of Indo-European moral superiority over "uncivilized", sensual, and "filthy" "savages" (see for instance the saying of the "White man's burden" of being morally obliged to "civilize" non-Westerners), social and ethnic "aliens", and marginalized minorities in a complex process of interior socio-psychological, cultural structuring of human sensual desires on the one hand, and foreign political and military colonialism of these desires on the other hand. Thus, in all three books ("Tabu Homosexualität", "Mannbarkeitsriten", and "Angst und Vorurteil") Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg alludes to cultural anthropology works such as "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt, Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents", Herbert Marcuse's "Eros and Civilization", Critical Theory's "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and "The Authoritarian Personality", or "The Civilizing Process" by Norbert Elias.