On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

By:

Sigmund Freud

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Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

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These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, which issues at times in self-harm and suicide. And Freud's extraordinary letter to Einstein, Why War? - rejecting what he saw as the physicist's naive pacifism - sums up his unsparing view of history in a few profoundly pessimistic, yet grimly persuasive pages.

Author Biography:

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.

Release date NZ

September 29th, 2005

Author

Sigmund Freud

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Penguin Classics

Pages

288

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x16

ISBN-13

9780141183794

Product ID

1743865

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