Adolf Hitler’s Pathological Narcissistic Personality Disorder in Mein Kampf

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Given the argument that an autobiography can be deconstructed like any other fictional texts, this article analyzes Mein Kampf (1939), written by Adolf Hitler treating text as a fiction. Doing so reveals character, who is very influenced writer. With use of Otto F. Kernberg’s (2004) theory on pathological narcissistic personality disorder, attempts to find character’s disorder inside and reasons for such disorder. The investigation symptoms narcissism found in self, emotional life, social functioning which fit into description patient. On hand, authoritarian parental figure innate talents are Keywords: autobiography; narcissism; adolf hitler; mein kampf

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عنوان ژورنال: Kata Kita: Journal of Language, Literature, and Teaching

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2598-7801']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.9744/katakita.9.3.389-397