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Author Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913-2002.

Title Life against death : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / by Norman O. Brown.

Publication Info. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985.
©1959

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  150.1952 B879L    Check Shelf
Edition 2nd ed. / with an introduction by Christopher Lasch.
Description xx, 366 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index.
Contents Introduction to the second edition / Christopher Lasch -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Problem -- 1: Disease called man -- 2: Neurosis and history -- Part 2: Eros -- 3: Sexuality and childhood -- 4: Self and the other: narcissus -- 5: Art and Eros -- 6: Language and Eros -- Part 3: Death -- 7: Instinctual dualism and instinctual dialectics -- 8: Death, time, and eternity -- 9: Death and childhood -- Part 4: Sublimation -- 10: Ambiguities of sublimation -- 11: Couch and culture -- 12: Apollo and Dionysus -- Part 5: Studies In Anality -- 13: Excremental vision -- 14: Protestant era -- 15: Filthy lucre -- Rationality and irrationality -- Sacred and secular -- Utility and uselessness -- Owe and ought -- Time is money -- Giving and taking -- City sublime -- Immortality -- Human body -- Excrement -- Part 6: Way Out -- 16: Resurrection of the body -- Reference notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Product Description: A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
Subject Civilization -- Philosophy.
Civilization -- Psychological aspects.
Psychohistory.
Psychoanalysis.
Death instinct.
Civilization -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00862931
Civilization -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862934
Death instinct. (OCoLC)fst00888707
Psychoanalysis. (OCoLC)fst01081235
Psychohistory. (OCoLC)fst01081321
Cultuurfilosofie.
Seksualiteit.
Indexed Term Psychohistory
ISBN 0819551481 (alk. paper)
9780819551481 (alk. paper)
0819561444 (paperback; alk. paper)
9780819561442 (paperback; alk. paper)
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