ENGLISH

On Murder, Mourning, and Melancholia (Modern Classics)

By Sigmund Freud , Shaun Whiteside (tr.) , Maud Ellmann (intro.)

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2005
ISBN
0141183799, 9780141183794
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8664623 bytes)
Series
New Penguin Freud
Pages
\291
Topic
Psychology
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-08-17 23:57:18
PsychoanalysisTheory

Description

Written against a backdrop of brutal conflict and rising racism across Europe, these works explore the underlying forces of modem neuroses and war. In 'Totem and Taboo', Freud describes similarities between tribal rites and the obsessive behaviour of neurotics. 'Timely Reflections on War and Death' outlines the way in which war strips away the veneer of civilization to reveal the savagery beneath, while 'Mourning and Melancholia' considers man's ambivalent attitude to death. And 'Why War?', Freud's letter to Einstein, responds to what he perceived to be the physicist's naïve pacifism and offers a profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive portrait of human nature.

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