This article traces right-wing authoritarian beliefs and attitudes back to conflicts occasioned by four general groups of impulses: impulses toward selfpreservation, mastery, sexuality, and aggression. It does so by viewing right wing authoritarian beliefs and attitudes as compromise formations resulting from defenses against negative affects aroused by these impulses.

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We try to clarify Kenneth Thomas's (“Wild Analysis in Politics”) mistakes about our analysis of the question: Do right‐wing authoritarian (RWA) beliefs originate from psychological conflict? We suggest, contrary to Thomas's analysis, an approach that builds on the kinds of psychodynamic causes we use to explain RWA and the importance of confirming them empirically.

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