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Freud stated that the aim of the death instinct is to “undo connections and so destroy things.” In the multicellular living organism, the libido meets the death instinct working to “disintegrate this cellular being and bring each elemental primary organism into a condition of inorganic stability.” Freud said that the death instinct sought to "dissolve living units and bring them back to their inorganic states."
Hitler described Jews as “no element of organization,” but rather a “disintegrator of peoples” whose presence caused the “falling to pieces of the organic structure of the nation.” Hitler divined a process within the nation that threatened to “dissolve the German people into its basic elements.”
The two descriptions of the operation of a "force of disintegration" are nearly identical.
Hitler projected his death instinct into the Jew, who became a "force of disintegration operating within the German body politic.
Freud's hypothesis of the death instinct was correct. It is difficult to verify this hypothesis by "looking within." However, psychological processes are often transferred outward into the external world. Society becomes (like an analyst) a place where transference occurs.
In the case of Hitler, it is easy to "see" the death instinct--as he experienced and projected it into the external world.
This is how psychoanalysis can reveal the sources and meanings of cultural phenomenon and history: manifestations of a vast transference neurosis. We project inner states of being onto the "screen" of society.
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