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-147- questioning, k few fr&ginauts hava, bom^r, bean unesrtbed which era helpful in reconstructing hi» past life and the experiences and influences which have determined his adult • ch&racter, Navertheleas, in themselves, they would be wholly inadequate for our purposes* Fortunately, there are other source* of information. One of than is Hitler hinsalf. In e*ery utterance A ape&Jcer .. ., or writer unknowingly tails u£ & great deal about hlaself of m which he ia entirely unaware. The oubjftcts h« chooses for elaboration frequently reveal unconscious factors ihich make these Sean more Important to him than many other aapecta which would to Juat as apprttprint* to the occasion. Furttieraors, thfl method of treatsnant, toother with ULB attitudes aipraflaed towards certain topics, usually reflect unconscious proceases which ar» synbolioally related to hla o n problen** The r_ axanplafl he chooa«fl for purpoaefl of illustration aluoet alwnys contain elomante from hlfl own earlier exparlanc40 which wer# in cultivating the view he is expounding* The of epaech he employs reflect uneotaaiauo conflicts and linkages and the iocidenea of particular types or topics can sjjioet be used as a meaBura of hia preoccupation with problems related to than* A number of experimental techniquas bare been worked out which bear witness to the validity of thase ttathods of gatharin^ inforkation about tlje mental lifa t conscious and unconfloloua, of an indiTidual in addition to the findings of psjchoanelyBts and paychifttriets» REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES