Freud and war / edited by Marlène Belilos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belilos, Marlène (Psychoanalyst), editor.

Standardized Title:

Freud et la guerre. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Einstein, Albert.

War--Psychological aspects.

War.

Psychoanalysis and culture.

Scientists--Correspondence.

Scientists.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xviii, 97 pages : 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2016.

Summary:

During the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking the fundamental question: What can be done to liberate humanity from the menace of war? The psychoanalyst replied at length and their exchange of letters (reproduced here) was published in March 1933 under the title Why War?. The book would be included in the book burnings in Berlin on 10th of May that year. Why War? is important in Freud's work because in it he develops a fundamental idea that leads him to conclude that the life and death drives are linked - a thought that he had already entertained in works such as Death and Us (1915), which is also included here. In a terrible irony, Freud dedicated a copy of Why War? to Mussolini, who nonetheless instituted a police investigation of its author. The contributors to this volume explore the reasons underlying the dedication, as well as giving their own reflections on the genesis of war. Contributors include Francois Ansermet, Marlene Belilos, Philippe De Georges, Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni, Laura Sokolowsky, Mark Solms, and Jean Ziegler.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Why war? An exchange of letters between Freud and Einstein / Albert Einstein Einstein, Albert, Sigmund Freud Freud, Sigmund 1

Chapter 2 Investigation of Freud by Italian Fascist embassy officials 17

Chapter 3 "Wir und der Tod": a previously untranslated version of a paper by Sigmund Freud on the attitude towards death Mark Solms 21

Chapter 4 Freud's dedication on Warum Kreig? / Laura Sokolowsky Sokolowsky, Laura 55

Chapter 5 War: a core issue for Freud Interview / Eugénie Lemoine-Luccioni Lemoine-Luccioni, Eugénie, Marlène Belilos Belilos, Marlène 63

Chapter 6 Freud's death drive: the paradox of destructiveness / François Ansermet Ansermet, François 71

Chapter 7 Drift / Philippe de Georges Georges, Philippe de 79.

Notes:

Translation. Originally published in French as Freud et la guerre. Paris : M. de Maule, ©2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index.

ISBN:

1782203117

9781782203117

1781816115

9781781816110

OCLC:

920847029