NP but sadomasochism. GR-relevant?

[Otto]

Die Furcht vor der Freiheit

http://www.querdenkerforum.de/forum/showthread.php?tid=4526

http://www.irwish.de/Site/Biblio/Fromm/FurchtFreiheit.htm

2013/5/11 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> seems Erich Fromm used H. Himmler as his extended example for
> analysis of sadomasochism in society in Escape From Freedom, 1941 and
> reworked and used again in Anatomy of Human Destructiveness and added
> an extended analysis of Hitler. 70s
>
> Fromm, as has been argued about Pynchon, drew on Arendt's Origins of
> Totalitarianism
> for the latter book. "Fromm argued that the sadistic aspect of the
> authoritarian character
> type and the necrophiliac character type operated in tandem, forming a
> partnership
> between the two most evil potentialities of the human condition."
>
> Escape from Freedom drew on Weber and Tawny and others on Protestantism as
> character creation
> in the West.
> .