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Life against death : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / by Norman O. Brown.
LIBRA CB19 .B69 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913-2002
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--Philosophy.
- Civilization.
- Civilization--Psychological aspects.
- Psychohistory.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Death instinct.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 366 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition / with an introduction by Christopher Lasch.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1985, c1959.
- Summary:
- Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common sense.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Problem
- The Disease Called Man
- Neurosis and History
- Part 2 Eros
- Sexuality and Childhood, The Self and the Other: Narcissus
- Art and Eros
- Language and Eros
- Part 3 Death
- Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics
- Death, Time, and Eternity
- Death and Childhood
- Part 4 Sublimation
- The Ambiguities of Sublimination
- Couch and Culture
- Apollo and Dionysus
- Part 5 Studies in Anality
- The Excremental Vision
- The Protestant Era
- Filthy Lucre
- Part 6 The Way Out
- Resurrection of the Body.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 351-360.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0819551481
- 0819561444
- OCLC:
- 12422094
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