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who are largely focused on the Holocaust, if this focus increases rather
than diminishes with each generation, then the cultural and intellectual
richness of Judaism will have been diminished and the Nazis will have
achieved a significant victory. While visiting Auschwitz I saw a little
French girl, perhaps eight years old, sit down outside one of the display
barracks and refuse to go in. "Come on," pleaded her parents, pointing to
the sign identifying the display. "This is about the life of the prisoners."
"1 don't want to see that," said the little girl, hunkering down on the
wooden stoop. How supremely rational this little girl was. I wanted to sit
on the stoop too. But instead I went in.
The Paradoxes of Delusion
Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind
LOUIS A. SASS
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Psychiatry
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