The psychology of the Kaiser : a study of his sentiments and his obsessions / by Morton Prince.
- Prince, Morton, 1854-1929.
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The psychology of the Kaiser : a study of his sentiments and his obsessions / by Morton Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the call to journey to this land ” of Branden- burg—plainly a divine call—and “ was convinced that the task [of governing] was given him from above.” (Kaiser’s speech, February 3, 1899.) What counts psycho- logically is that the Kaiser believes that a divine right to rule is his prerogative. How, in this age, a man who has shown such marked ability in certain directions can be such a fool—I mean psychologically, of course—as to persuade himself to believe such stuff is another story that would make an interesting psychological study in itself, and in the last analysis could probably be traced to subconscious wishes or dreads which have produced this conscious delusion, just as such subconscious processes deter- mine the delusions of insane people. Our conscious thoughts are much more deter- mined by subconscious processes, of which we are unaware, than we realize. One great popular delusion is that our minds are more exact logical instruments than they really are, and we stand in awe of the minds of great men, thinking that because they are superior in certain directions, therefore c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29816452_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
