Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History [Paperback]

A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One: The Problem—The Disease Called Man
Neurosis and History
Part Two: Eros—Sexuality and Childhood, The Self and the Other: Narcissus
Art and Eros
Language and Eros
Part Three: Death—Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics
Death, Time, and Eternity
Death and Childhood
Part Four: Sublimation—The Ambiguities of Sublimination
Couch and Culture
Apollo and Dionysus
Part Five: Studies in Anality—The Excremental Vision
The Protestant Era
Filthy Lucre
Part Six: The Way Out—Resurrection of the Body
Reference Notes
Bibliography
IndexNORMAN O. BROWN is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth, Hesiod’s Theogony, Love’s Body and Closing Time. His most recent book, Apocalypse and / or Metamorphosis, completes a trilogy which includes Life Against Death and Love’s Body.“One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown’s contribution to moral thought . . . cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know.”“Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common sense…The highest praise one can give to Brown’s book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche.”