Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Psychohistory Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,3 (1992) 251-270
Keywords:
Hitler, Adolf,
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Analyzes Hitler's personality and the responses of the German people to him in terms of psychoanalytic self-psychology. Explains how Hitler's problems were reflected in his national policies and attitudes. For example, his displacement onto all Jews of the power that he invested in them represented a self-object transference psychotic reaction (i.e. a displacement from paternal self-object of his childhood); thus, Hitler's antisemitism was based on a delusion of persecution. Until 1938, Hitler's imbalances combined well with the German masses' needs. Describes the far-reaching, historical decisions which were a unique function of Hitler's defective self (e.g. the Munich putsch in 1923, the Final Solution).
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