Surviving and Other Essays Author:Bruno Bettelheim This volume brings together for the first time all of Bruno Bettelheim's most important essays, ranging over three decades and the entire spectrum of the great psychoanalysist's concerns -- from his earliest writings about the Nazi experience to his discussions of education and contemporary youth and his famous New Yorker polemic on Lina Wertmul... more »ler's Seven Beauties. In addition to a large selection devoted to the holocaust and its survivors, there are also pieces on growing up female, on privacy, on art and art education, on modern sexuality (including his hilarious take-off on Portnoy's Complaint, "Portnoy Psychoanalyzed"), on the psychological allure of totalitarianism, on violence itself.
"IMBUED WITH...A CAPACITY FOR DECIPHERING OUR DARKEST HUMAN IMPULSES, AND A KNOWLEDGE OF THE MORAL IMPULSES THAT COULD RESTRAIN THEM." --THE NEW YORK TIMES« less