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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790126403321

Autore

Brown Norman Oliver <1913-2002, >

Titolo

Life against death : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / / Norman Oliver Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , [1985]

©1985

ISBN

1-280-48863-8

9786613583864

0-8195-7053-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

Civilization - Philosophy

Psychoanalysis

Psychohistory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; LIFE AGAINST DEATH; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the Second Edition,by Christopher Lasch; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part One: THE PROBLEM; I The Disease Called Man; II Neurosis and History; Part Two: EROS; III Sexuality and Childhood; IV The Self and the Other: Narcissus; V Art and Eros; VI Language and Eros; Part Three: DEATH; VII Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics; VIII Death, Time, and Eternity; IX Death and Childhood; Part Four: SUBLIMATION; x The Ambiguities of Sublimation; XI Couch and Culture; XII Apollo and Dionysus; Part Five: STUDIES IN ANALITY

XII I The Excremental VisionXIV The Protestant Era; XV Filthy Lucre; Rationality and Irrationality; Sacred andSecular; Utility and Uselessness; Owe andOught; Time Is Money; Giving and Taking; The City Sublime; Immortality; TheHuman Body; Excrement; Part Six: THE WAY OUT; XVI The Resurrection of the Body; Reference Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.