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he hns of subduing his mounting unconscious guilt
is to commit another act of aggrossion, and so to
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is the only wrong.
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Self, - Hitler perceives in other people the tre.its
or tendencies that are criticizable in himself.
Thus, instead of being devoured by the vultur'e of
his own condemning conscience or of his own disdain,
he can attack what he apperceives as evil or contemptible
in the external world, and so remain unconscious
(mest of the time) of hl"! e"ln p:;uilt or
his own inferiori ty . Tbis mechanj ~l"1 1rJr.1c.reby"_~~_1~~
~es his own v:icked impulses or v~eal~ne3~es in o".:;~ers ,
is called pro.i.~ti_~.
It is one v'ay, the paranoid
way, of maintainin~ self-esteem. The mechanism