Relationship Between Hitler's Ideology And Phantasy

In Hitler’s Ideology, the goal of psychoanalytic sociology, according to Koenigsberg, is to understand the psychological roots of cultural ideas, beliefs, and values as they have been embodied in the central ideologies of civilized societies. He uses Hitler as a case study for this science to examine the relationship between belief and phantasy. He picked Hitler for a variety of reasons. First, Hitler possessed a constant and consistent belief system. Second, his speeches and writings contain primary process imagery, which the author states are susceptible to psychological interpretation. Also, Hitler’s system of beliefs was shared and followed by a large number of individuals, and it had a substantial impact upon world history. The author’s aim of this book is to examine how Hitler’s phantasies projected into social reality, shape his beliefs, and attempts to understand how he perceives the world. He divides the book into three parts: Hitler’s Ideology and Phantasy, Social Behavior, and Theory. He takes excerpts from Hitler’s speeches and writings which are concerned with his beliefs. He then classifies these statements according to the nature of the belief being expressed, in which he then categorizes them under twenty-one tables …show more content…
Political action attempts to save its life, and the immortality of the nation is a consequence of being a special type of organism. In researching the source of this ideology, he concludes that Hitler’s fear of the German people being contaminated represents the phantasy that “mother” will be contaminated because of “father’s” seduction. Thus, his efforts to rescue the people, represents his desire to save his mother from the sexual advances of