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I think there is a difference between how you paraphrased him, and what he wrote. He didn't say "appealing" (which I think would have meant the appeal was super

I think there is a difference between how you paraphrased him, and what he wrote. He didn't say "appealing" (which I think would have meant the appeal was superficial), he instead chose to say "psychologically sound" (meaning he thought it was not superficial at all). To me those two concepts are quite different.

true_religion 12y ago
He, the author, is saying that characterizing people as desiring struggle (as referenced in the book) is more psychologically sound than characterizing them as seeking pleasure as an end-goal as a hedonistic principle would state. It's not saying nazism is 'correct' and should be practiced, but rather the way nazis view human psychology is a better model than that of the hedonist.