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Solitude (3826 words) |
 | Storr quotes Bruno Bettleheim's experience of a concentration camp "that the prisoners who gave up and died were those who had abandoned any attempt at personal autonomy; who acquiesced in their captors' aim of dehumanising and exercising total control over them" (p49). |
| Storr is at pains to show that isolation, solitude can be survived by people who are able to find satisfaction in creativity and he occasionally remembers to mention ordinary humans finding satisfaction in solitary pursuits like fishing and gardening. |
| Storr's heroes are not all conformists, to be sure, but they do not challenge the fundamentals of their age - like Luther did for example, a man who not only challenged the fundamental of catholic belief but 'suffered' from what would today be described as psychiatric symptons. |
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