it is misleading, even outright wrong, to describe Fritzl as ‘inhuman’ - if anything, he was, to use Nietzsche’s phrase, 'human, all too human’. No wonder Fritzl complained that his own life had been 'ruined’ by the discovery of his secret family. What makes his reign so chilling is precisely the way his brutal exercise of power and his usufruit Fritzl claimed that he noted Elisabeth wanted to escape her home - she was returning home late, looking for a job, had a boyfriend, was possibly taking drugs, and he wanted to protect her from all that The contours of the obsessional strategy are clearly recognizable here: 'III protect her from the dangers of the outside world even if it means destroying her’. According to the media, Fritzl defended himself thus: If it weren’t for me, Kerstin wouldn’t be alive today, f m no monster. I could have killed them all. Then there would have been no trace. No one would have found me out’ What is crucial here is the underlying premiss: as a father, he had the right to exercise total power

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