ABSTRACT
Civilisation has much justification in its fear of the explosion of human rage. Alice Miller says that if Hitler had had a son, he would probably have beaten the hell out of him, and consequently the world in general would not have suffered his hate (Miller, 1987, p188). The Second World War could therefore be seen in part as the result of one man’s bottled-up rage and hate at the daily beatings from his father. (Furthermore, Hitler was followed and supported by many people who, in their childhoods, had similarly bottled up raging feelings caused by orders to obey their very authoritarian fathers).
