ATS2875 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17-20: Josef Mengele, Gas Chamber, Nordic Race
5 Aug 2018
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Through doubling not only kill and contribute to killing by organise silently on behalf of that evil project: doubling involved 5 characteristics, a dialect between two selves in terms of autonomy and connection. Life-death dimensions - the auschwitz self was perceived by the perpetrators as a form of psychological survival in a death dominated environment: unconscious dimension - largely outside awareness and a significant change in moral consciousness. It involves an interruption is psychic action - in the creation and re-creation images. It says that one could old only react like a normal human in auschwitz for a few hours. This was saying that once someone entered they enveloped in a blanket of numbing: heavy drinking of the doctors lead to altered state of consciousness within which one tried on the threating. In the altered state, conflicts and objections need not have been viewed as serious resistance, need not have been dangerous.
