[Male adolescence, hatred for foreigners and the self-repair function exemplified by juvenile right extremist skinheads].

Restructuring the personality, developing a new we-feeling, coping with drive thrusts and ego-syntonically reorganizing infantile conflicts are key developmental functions during adolescence. Some characteristics of male adolescence explain why especially male teen-agers are susceptible to joining right-wing extremist groups ready to use violence. The surroundings of right-wing extremist violence offers specific stabilizations which support the adolescent configuration of the enlarged self but as the same time they also lead to deformations of the personality. Establishing a greater self by ideology, self reparative transformation of self hatred to xenophobia, masking the personality and the regression of sexual desire to the desire of violence are consequences of processes of adaption and assimilation as described in cases of serious inner or outer threats.