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Life against death : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / by Norman O. Brown.
LIBRA - Special CB19 .B69 1959
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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.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 366 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- First Wesleyan paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1970.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0819560103
- 9780819560100
- OCLC:
- 15374227
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