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These are the people who hate themselves because they haven't come to terms with their helplessness. They feel threatened by helplessness itself, not by those who caused or reinforced the feeling, and this is what produces their boundless rage. Therefore, they repress their helplessness, which has made them feel rejected and despised, at the same time oppressing their 'oppressors' contempt for them.

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Our own vitality as well as that of others frightens us, if it still manages to surface, we respond with rage and turn against our own freedom. It is vitality itself that we are opposing.

Arno Gruen

Arno Gruen

Arno Gruen

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Born: May 26, 1923

Died: October 20, 2015 (aged 92)

Bio: Arno Gruen was a Swiss-German psychologist and psychoanalyst.

Known for:

Der Fremde in uns (2000)
The betrayal of the self (1988)
Der Kampf um die Demokratie (2002)
Ein früher Abschied

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