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6 A struggle with the concept of death: “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” 7 Driving death away: Freud’s theory of the death drive; 8 Death and culture: Death as a central motif in Freud’s cultural and literary analyses; 9 Avoidance and reduction of death in psychoanalysis; 10 The post-Freudians in the labyrinth of death; 11 Lacan
This is the sixth chapter of Freud, Psychoanalysis and Death (Cambridge University Press, 2013). I this chapter I try to elucidate some of the complexities and problematics of Freud’s thinking about death, by dealing with his most important text on the subject, a paper written in 1915 called “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.”
29 de mar. de 2008 · For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but social fear, and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to do away with wrongdoing but because it wishes to monopolise it, like salt or tobacco, it suspends its reproach in ...
Thoughts for the Time of War and Death (German: Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod) is an essay written by Sigmund Freud in 1915, 6 months after the outbreak of World War I and took as its starting point for analysis the disillusionment that many people felt at the prospect of what was, even then, perceived as a particularly savage war amongst what were regarded to be highly civilized nations.
112 Thoughts for the Times on War and Death 113 While on the whole, as I argued above, Freud’s writings show little theoretical interest in the issue of death or are reductionistic, “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” is often taken to express a different position, a more “existential” concern with death.2 First, there is the ...
Freud’s New Introductory Lectures chapter, “The Question of a Weltanschauung,” along with several works of psychoanalytic social theory and little-known articles like “Why War?” and “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death,” indicates Freud’s continued interest in matters of psyche and society, contemporary politics, and history.
Thoughts for the Time of War and Death (German: Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod) is a set of twin essays written by Sigmund Freud in 1915, six months after the outbreak of World War I. The essays express discontent and disillusionment with human nature and human society in the aftermath of the hostilities; and generated much interest among lay readers of Freud.
