Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
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.
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A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis. "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"
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 Index
\ From The Critics"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"\ \
