Editing George S. Patton (section)

=== Identity Fusion and Symbolic Self-Perception ===
Patton believed in reincarnation and frequently claimed to have been a warrior in previous eras—Hannibal, Napoleon’s aide, a Crusader. These beliefs were not delusions but examples of '''symbolic identity fusion''', a trait I have documented in other autistic figures like Yeats and Nietzsche.

This behavior reflects '''autistic grandiosity rooted not in ego, but in symbolic self-structuring'''. Patton did not see himself as a man playing a role—he experienced himself as '''inhabiting a formal archetype''', a recurring pattern of moral execution.
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