On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Author: Freud, Sigmund
ISBN: 9780141183794
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Oct 2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
One of fifteen new translations of FreudP#39;s key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern eraP#39;s greatest writers
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our P#39;primitiveP#39; past and P#39;civilizedP#39; modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And FreudP#39;s extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicistP#39;s naP#239;ve pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.
ISBN: 9780141183794
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Oct 2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
One of fifteen new translations of FreudP#39;s key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern eraP#39;s greatest writers
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our P#39;primitiveP#39; past and P#39;civilizedP#39; modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And FreudP#39;s extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicistP#39;s naP#239;ve pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.
