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In "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness", Fromm claims Hitler was "a clinical case of necrophilia" in Chapter 13.

Is Fromme justified in this?

Is this a redefinition of the term Necrophilia?

Is there any evidence that hitler was obsessed with death?

pjp
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  • I get a very psudoscience feeling from this, but it worth the ask. Apologies if the formats wrong or this is more suitable to philosophy or another stack. – pjp Aug 27 '16 at 23:39
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    What definition of the term necrophilia does Fromme use? – Brythan Aug 28 '16 at 00:09
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    What sort of evidence would be convincing either way? Fromme did not conduct a personal examination of Hitler, and diagnosing celebrities without one is widely considered unethical. He spends a chapter on his own version of Freudian analysis to support his claim, but it seems largely unfalsifiable speculation. – Oddthinking Aug 28 '16 at 03:26
  • That might be violating the Goldwater Rule –  Aug 28 '16 at 04:10
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    Godwin's Law *and* the Goldwater Rule. – Oddthinking Aug 28 '16 at 11:59
  • @oddthinking I guess thats the problem with it, he makes a lot of statements about hitlers youth and I'm not sure about his sources on many of them, but mainly I'm interested in the validity of this sort of analysis. – pjp Aug 28 '16 at 15:44
  • @dawn, I think that 's one reason the whole thing feels so wrong. This question was prompted by a friend being convinced this is true based on the source, but after reading it I couldn't quite describe why it seemed so far off base. – pjp Aug 28 '16 at 15:44
  • @Brythan I wasnt sure how much of the source to include in the post because it might be a fairly long excerpt and paraphrasing it might be wrong. – pjp Aug 28 '16 at 15:46

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