Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für Deutsche Geschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2004) 135-147
Keywords:
Freud, Sigmund,
;
Weber, Max,
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
States that Weber and Freud offer us the appropriate conceptual tools with which to begin to understand the otherwise incomprehensible Holocaust. Weber's conception of bureaucracy can be applied here, since the Final Solution is distinguished from other genocides by its particularly technological rational-functional character. Freud's psychoanalysis grants us insight into political leaders and their followers, the personalities of the second-rank implementers of ideology, the role of anxiety in politics, and the complex and controversial relationship between persecutor and victim. Dwells on Bettelheim's psychoanalytical interpretation of the victims' behavior during the Holocaust - the Jews' compliance and law-abiding innocence was a denial of the extreme situation in which the conventional rules of morality and conduct no longer applied.
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