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the belief that art triumphs where it disguises its own artifices. But , however
staunch our moral principles , the only authentic epistemology now available
to
us is that of doubt , relativity, self-consciousness. Craig will not have this ;
he comes to literature as a Roundhead , serious , devout , scrupulous, with a
clear light in his eyes, testing his Shakespeare , Dickens, Lawrence , and Hugh
MacDiarmid with the touchstone of Truth , and flaying Eliot 's
The Waste
Land
for its supercilious cynicism and snobbery.
Yet this is a lively and thoughtful book. Here is a critic who, contrary to
the current fashion, has not entered into competition with the authors he
studies; who does not feel compelled, in order to make his name , to discharge
crescendos of verbal and emotional pyrotechnics in the course of his ego-trip ;
a critic who is unashamed about the awe and pleasure good writing engenders ,
and who lends us his intelligence without simultaneously selling himself.
David Caute
HITLER'S IDEOLOGY
A Study in Psychoanalytic Sociology
RICHARD A. KOENIGSBERG
In this original and important work ,
Dr.
Koenigsberg lays the empirical
foundation for a systematic psychoanalytic approach to the study of culture and
history . On the basis of an analysis of the psychological sources of Hitler's
ideology ,
Dr.
Koenigsberg proceeds to develop a psychoanalytic theory of
nationalism, and of the sources of political ideas.
Hitler is studied in this work , not in terms of the idiosyncracies of hi5
personality, but as a means of uncovering the unconscious origins of those shared
belief-systems which define our contemporary political culture : racism, revolu·
tion ; nationalism; war. Among the topics discussed : the sexual source of thf
revolutionary impulse; the maintenance of the " purity" of the nation; devotiol1
to " the people ;" nationalism and infantile narcissism; war as a struggle againsl
death.
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