| Sigmund Freud saved by Nazi admirer |
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was saved from Hitler’s
persecution of the Jews by a long-standing Nazi who was fascinated with his
work, a new book reveals.
The fate of Freud and his family in Vienna hung in the balance after Hitler’s
forces took over Austria in 1938. The psychoanalyst was first protected,
then helped to escape to Britain, by Anton Sauerwald, a Nazi who had been
put in charge of his assets.
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| Murray explored a theory of personality in which the interplay of 20 psychogenic needs of varying strength produced distinct personality types. Murray pegged Hitler’s personality as “counteractive narcism,” a type that is stimulated by real or imagined insult or injury. According to Dr. Murray, the characteristics of this personality type include: holding grudges, low tolerance for criticism, excessive demands for attention, inability to express gratitude, a tendency to belittle, bully, and blame others, desire for revenge, persistence in the face of defeat, extreme self-will, self-trust, inability to take a joke, and compulsive criminality. Dr. Murray concluded that Hitler had these characteristics (and others) to an extreme degree and lacked the offsetting qualities that round out a balanced personality.Read more at library.lawschool.cornell.edu |
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