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Article

Aspects of Survival: Triumph over Death and Onliness

Pages 4-11
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes the universal (beyond nation, philosophy of life, and leader) reasons for the German Holocaust, specifically, the relationship between the atrocious Ideological/Enslaving Master and his or her Followers. Two script payoffs for this kind of Master are described: a moment of triumph over death and a moment of onliness, or ultimate aloneness, achieved through the deaths of many other people. The exaggeration and joining of these two human needs produce the psychological basis for genocide and holocaust.

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Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs is a psychotherapist and trainer of psychotherapists who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. He is also a Certified Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst.