Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
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"Reflections on War and Death" by Sigmund Freud is a set of twin essays written in 1915, six months after World War I began. Freud explores the profound disillusionment that accompanied the war's outbreak, examining how conflict exposed the fragility of European civilization and revealed humanity's primitive impulses beneath its civilized veneer. He argues that peacetime society had cultivated "cultural hypocrites" and dangerously shielded people from confronting death's inevitability, leaving them unprepared
for the war's industrial-scale carnage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden), 1874-1948 |
| Translator | Kuttner, Alfred B. (Alfred Booth), 1886- |
| LoC No. | 18010282 |
| Uniform Title | Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod. English |
| Title | Reflections on War and Death |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_for_the_Times_on_War_and_Death |
| Credits |
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 52.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BD: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Speculative Philosophy, General Philosophical works |
| LoC Class | BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis and culture |
| Subject | War -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Death -- Psychological aspects |
| Subject | Civilization -- Philosophy |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35875 |
| Release Date | Apr 15, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 664 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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