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-193- r An emotional identification with his mother would, therefore, carry him Xa the direction of a pasgive, sentimental, abafiive and Bubals give fc-rn of adjuatBent. Wany writers aitd informants hav» comrontad on his feminine charactarieticji—bis gftit, hi a hands, his BiBiiAflriAina ismd ways of think Ing. reports that when he showed Dr. Jung a 3pecLran of Hitler *9 handwritingy the latter iumodifttely oxclaimad thftt It was a typically feminine hood* Hi a choice of art as a profession hi^bt also ba interpreted ae a nanifnatation of a baoic idfliitification* There are definite indications of such an emotionfil ^juatnent 1ftter in lif*« The outatandi[>g of these is perhaps - • hie behavior towards ois officers during the ls^t war* Hi a comradse repcrt that during the four years he was in aarrlce he WSB not only over-aubmlaElva to all tip officer* but fre» quently volunt&erad to do their washing and take cara of their clothes * This would certainly indieat& a strong tendency to FLD3\U» the fsjainine role in the prasenco of a masculine figure whsnflTOj- this WEB feasible and could be duly rationalised. His extreme sentimentality, his enotloaality, his occasional eoftnesa and his weeping, aven after he bicmoo Chancellor, say be regarded aa pmnoifeatfttiona of a fundamental feminine pattern which Undoubtedly had its origins in his relationship to hiB nothar* His peraiatent fear of cancer, which waa tha illness fron which hi a mothar diedj nay also be coddiddred ad an expression of hie early identification with her* REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES