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and cover-up for daepJjlflg tendencies which ha deapiee&. ThiB mechanism is Ferj- frequently found In hy&terlci and always serves the purpose of denying the true flolf by creating aa image which is • diametrically opposite and than Identifying with the Image* The greet difference betwoea Hitler find thQiteandfl of other hysterics • is that he managed to convince railllanja of other people that, the image is really hiaself - The aore he was able to con vines thea, the aora h* bftOane conylsicod of it hlnaolf on the theory toet eighty million Germans can't bo nrong* Arid Do he has fallen in loTft.wit^ the inage he, himself, (jrentrf and does hie Qtaoat to forget that • • behind It there ie quits another Hitler •ho 5-a * v*ry deapicfible fellow. . . - • Be ia hardly more succesjiful in thia nanouvre than any otter hysteric* Secret fear3 and anxieties that beli# the reality of thft imape keep cropping up to ahake his confidenco. acd s&etirlty- H* way rationalize these fearu or difiplaca them but they eoi^Unufl to hicunt h±n)t Underneath, Hitler is £ bundle of fes>6* Some are at leaet ptrtifilly justified, others Beem to be gromidlees^ For eiflaple, he has hfid a fear of cflucer for many years; Ordinarily ha • fear a that li* has a canc*r in hi? stomach aince he ie always both- ered with indignation. The neourHdcos of hip doctors are all to no avail* K few year a ago a simple potyp grew oil hU larynx* Infiedl^ ataly his fear shifted to the throat and he TOG sure that he b&4 dmr r sloped a throat cancer, then Dr* voa Eictan diagooaed i t ae a aip.iU polyp, Hitler nt first refused to believe him* ' Then h4 has faara of being poisoned, fours of being aesaa- inated, fears of loulng his health, fearo of gaining wsight, fatra • • • v of treason, fears of losing his nyetical guidance, fears of eneethe- REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES