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A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.

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title:Life against Death : The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
author:Brown, Norman Oliver.
publisher:Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin:0819561444
print isbn13:9780819561442
ebook isbn13:9780585370163
language:English
subjectCivilization--Philosophy, Civilization--Psychological aspects, Psychohistory, Psychoanalysis, Death instinct.
publication date:1985
lcc:CB19.B69 1985eb
ddc:150.19/52
subject:Civilization--Philosophy, Civilization--Psychological aspects, Psychohistory, Psychoanalysis, Death instinct.
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Life Against Death
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ALSO BY NORMAN O. BROWN
Closing Time
Love' s Body
Hesiod's Theogony
Hermes the Thief
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
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Life Against Death
The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
Second Edition
By
Norman O. Brown
With an Introduction by Christopher Lasch
Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New - photo 2
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Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England,
Hanover, NH 03755
Copyright 1959 by Wesleyan University
Introduction to the Second Edition copyright 1985
by Christopher Lasch
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America 5
Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913
Life against death.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. CivilizationPhilosophy. 2. Civilization
Psychological aspects. 3. Psychohistory. 4. Psycho
analysis. 5. Death instinct. 1. Title.
CB19.B69 1985 150.19'52 85-17928
ISBN 0-8195-5148-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8195-6144-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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CONTENTS
Introduction to the Second Edition,
by Christopher Lasch
vii
Acknowledgments
xv
Preface
xvii
Part One: The Problem
I
The Disease Called Man
3
II
Neurosis and History
11
Part Two: Eros
III
Sexuality and Childhood
23
IV
The Self and the Other: Narcissus
40
V
Art and Eros
55
VI
Language and Eros
68
Part Three: Death
VII
Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics
77
VIII
Death, Time, and Eternity
87
IX
Death and Childhood
110

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Part Four: Sublimation
X
The Ambiguities of Sublimation
137
XI
Couch and Culture
145
XII
Apollo and Dionysus
157
Part Five: Studies in Anality
XIII
The Excremental Vision
179
XIV
The Protestant Era
202
XV
Filthy Lucre
234
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Rationality and Irrationality
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Sacred and Secular
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Utility and Uselessness
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Owe and Ought
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Time is Money
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Giving and Taking
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The City Sublime
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Immortality
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