Psychobiography of adolf hitler
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A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler
A Psychological Analysis of Adolf Hitler Emma Clark December 3, 2012 University of Mary Washington ABSTRACT Adolf Hitler is undoubtedly one of the most terrifying and significant figures of the twentieth century. Historians and psychologists alike are fascinated by the many unanswered questions that Hitler left behind. From the moment he came into power, historians and psychiatrists have been captivated bygd Adolf Hitler. Authors continually try to answer many burning questions in attempts to better understand Hitler as a man and as a leader. This planerat arbete will analyze Adolf Hitler’s early years and show how critical his childhood was in directly influencing the development of his character. Adolf Hitler is undoubtedly one of the most terrifying and significant figures of the twentieth century. Historians and psychologists alike are fascinated by the many 1 unanswered questions that Hitler left behind. Even before his fall from power, literat
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Hitler’s War, by David Irving; The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, bygd Robert G. L. Waite
The Revised Hitler
Hitler’s War.
by David Irving.
Viking. 926 pp. $17.50.
The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler.
by Robert G. L. Waite.
Basic Books. 482 pp. $13.50.
The Hitler boom continues unabated, but the man remains as elusive a subject for revisionists and psychohistorians as ever he was to more conventional biographers. Among the first in the recent crop was John Lukacs’s The Last European War (1976), a brilliant (and perverse) extended essay that echoes the French rightists of the 1930’s. Like them, Lukacs regards Europe in that era as requiring a moral laxative, which Hitler was best qualified to administer; once purged, a resurgent, German-led continent would have been able to withstand both Russian Communism and American materialism. Next came John Toland’s Adolf Hitler, whose author, functioning like a rookie reporter at the Borgia court
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The disciplines of Adlerian psychobiography and psychohistory have not yet developed very far. There have been life style interpretations of Marilyn Monroe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Albert Einstein, Ann Richards, Nijinsky, Adolf Hitler, and Brian Wilson. Adler did write about Dostoevsky (The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 4, Chapter XVII), and Danton, Marat, and Robespierre (CCWAA. Vol. 5, Ch. IV). A fascinating (but not Adlerian) perspective on political leaders can be found in Presidential Character, by James David Barber. He examines the political style, world view, and character of selected presidents of the United States. In For Your Own Good, Alice Miller has also made significant psychoanalytic contributions to the discipline of psychohistory.
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