LIFE AGAINST DEATH by Norman O. Brown 1959 Pocket First Edition Paperback

Description: LIFE AGAINST DEATH by Norman O. Brown 1959 Pocket First Edition Paperback The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History Pocket size paperback is in good condition, ex-library item, worn cover edges and corners, dents, taped cover, stains, rubbings, light spine crease, black marker at top and tail book ends, black marker and trace from removed pocket inside front cover, title page is missing, clean text, tight binding, please see photos Weslayn University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1959, First Edition, xii+366 pages 7 3/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 inches A shocking and extreme interpretation of culture, history, and the father of psychoanalysis. In Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, social philosopher Norman O. Brown radically analyzes and critiques the work of Sigmund Freud. Brown attempts to define a non-repressive civilization, draws parallels between psychoanalysis and the theology of Martin Luther, and also examines the revolutionary themes present in western religious thought, such as ideas found in the work of William Blake and Jakob Böhme. Reviews "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."―Lionel Trilling "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. The highest praise one can give to Brown's book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche."―Susan Sontag

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