Surviving And Other Essays
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What does it mean to survive the unsurvivable? Bruno Bettelheim — psychologist, Holocaust survivor, and one of the twentieth century's most penetrating minds — confronts that question head-on in this landmark collection of essays. Drawing on his own harrowing experience as a prisoner in Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as decades of clinical and scholarly work, Bettelheim chronicles the psychological mechanisms that allow human beings to endure extreme suffering, moral disintegration, and the systematic destruction of selfhood. The title essay, a meditation on guilt and survival, stands as one of the most profound pieces of Holocaust literature ever written. Beyond the biographical, this collection presents Bettelheim's razor-sharp analysis of modern culture, child-rearing, education, and the fragile architecture of the human psyche. His prose is at once clinical and deeply personal — an unsettling combination that demands the reader's full moral attention. Whether arguing against the numbing effects of mass society or illuminating the inner lives of deeply troubled children, Bettelheim writes with an urgency that has lost none of its power. For anyone grappling with the darkest questions of human existence, this collection remains an essential and deeply unsettling reckoning.
Author: Bruno Bettelheim
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Thames and Hudson, London
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears tears, small chip at bottom right corner. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Good.
What does it mean to survive the unsurvivable? Bruno Bettelheim — psychologist, Holocaust survivor, and one of the twentieth century's most penetrating minds — confronts that question head-on in this landmark collection of essays. Drawing on his own harrowing experience as a prisoner in Dachau and Buchenwald, as well as decades of clinical and scholarly work, Bettelheim chronicles the psychological mechanisms that allow human beings to endure extreme suffering, moral disintegration, and the systematic destruction of selfhood. The title essay, a meditation on guilt and survival, stands as one of the most profound pieces of Holocaust literature ever written. Beyond the biographical, this collection presents Bettelheim's razor-sharp analysis of modern culture, child-rearing, education, and the fragile architecture of the human psyche. His prose is at once clinical and deeply personal — an unsettling combination that demands the reader's full moral attention. Whether arguing against the numbing effects of mass society or illuminating the inner lives of deeply troubled children, Bettelheim writes with an urgency that has lost none of its power. For anyone grappling with the darkest questions of human existence, this collection remains an essential and deeply unsettling reckoning.