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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39256217 Title: Autonomy in the extreme situation : Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi concentration camps and the mass society Author: Paul Marcus; Mazal Holocaust Collection Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0275947254 9780275947255 OCLC:39256217

  
  

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Autonomy in the extreme situation : Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi concentration camps and the mass society

Author:	Paul Marcus; Mazal Holocaust Collection.
Publisher:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Criticizes the psychoanalytical approach of Bruno Bettelheim to the problem of the behavior of concentration camp inmates. Bettelheim neglects social and political factors in this behavior. Moreover, he and Hannah Arendt maintain that the Jews, with their passivity in the camps and their internalization of their torturers' values, bear responsibility for their own destruction. At the same time, Marcus defends Bettelheim against some of his critics, who overlook his argument that inmates' behavior is best understood as a tension between two poles: preserving autonomy and moral values - and survival at any price. Bettelheim's analogy between "mass society" and "concentration camp society" is effective; his psychoanalytic conception of camp behavior largely conforms with that of Terrence Des Pres, his main critic.  Read more...
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Subjects	Bettelheim, Bruno. Liberty. Individualism. View all subjects
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