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Life against death : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / Norman Oliver Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913-2002, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--Philosophy.
- Civilization.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychohistory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [1985]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Contents:
- Cover; LIFE AGAINST DEATH; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition,by Christopher Lasch; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part One: THE PROBLEM; I The Disease Called Man; II Neurosis and History; Part Two: EROS; III Sexuality and Childhood; IV The Self and the Other: Narcissus; V Art and Eros; VI Language and Eros; Part Three: DEATH; VII Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics; VIII Death, Time, and Eternity; IX Death and Childhood; Part Four: SUBLIMATION; x The Ambiguities of Sublimation; XI Couch and Culture; XII Apollo and Dionysus; Part Five: STUDIES IN ANALITY
- XII I The Excremental VisionXIV The Protestant Era; XV Filthy Lucre; Rationality and Irrationality; Sacred andSecular; Utility and Uselessness; Owe andOught; Time Is Money; Giving and Taking; The City Sublime; Immortality; TheHuman Body; Excrement; Part Six: THE WAY OUT; XVI The Resurrection of the Body; Reference Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613583864
- 9781280488634
- 1280488638
- 9780819570536
- 0819570532
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