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Necrophilia is also lesser known in some contexts as "the desire to control". This term has been used in this sense by certain authors, for example, by Erich Fromm, for describing those with so much need for control of others that the extent of control which the victims are subjected to is such that, in effect, they are dead, ie, they have zero self control.
From Fromm's "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" (1973), he states that necrophilia is "the passion to destroy life and the attraction to all that is dead, decaying, and purely mechanical".
This definition has been used to describe the holocaust, as well as other anthropogenic atrocities.
The opposite is necrophobia.
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