Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe
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Psychoanalysis in the European Politics
Both John gunther and his wife, frances, are psychoanalyzed. They use psychoanalysis to explain how the leaders came to be how they are. But in a sense, what the book is documenting is the ways in which the boundaries between inner life,. people's own inner lives, and geo politics collapse. It becomes very difficult for people to distinguish how they themselves of the relationships the inner life that they are cultivating and the big patterns that they see around them.
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