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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 ...
- Sigmund Freud
- German
- 1915
- Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod
In this essay, written about six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Freud expresses his disillusionment about human nature and the supreme institution of the civilized world, namely the state. The words describing the state and its monopoly of violence are powerful and right to the point.
Sigmund Freud begins "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" by lamenting Europe's degenerate state. Millions of soldiers are caught up in World War I (1914–18) while people at home feel disillusioned by the unwelcome changes that have befallen the continent.
Volume 14 of Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud. Author. Sigmund Freud. Translated by. Ethel Colburn Mayne. Publisher. Hogarth Press, 1964. Length. 302 pages.
"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" refers to the essay's subject matter. Author Sigmund Freud explores how World War I (1914–18) caused people to become disillusioned with modern society and forced them to reevaluate their relationship with death. Summary.
Sigmund Freud, 1915. Curator's Comments. The war years brought death to the center of Freud's thinking and his personal life. In his bleak outlook, Freud understood war to be a resurgence of the violent past that humankind was incapable of leaving behind. Back to top.
Freud, Sigmund. "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death". Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, edited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griffin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp. 118-118.
