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On Murder, Mourning, and Melancholia (Modern Classics)

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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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4366747
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Year:
2005
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
0141183799
ISBN 13:
9780141183794
ISBN:
0141183799,9780141183794
Series:
New Penguin Freud

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