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Life against Death : The Psychoanalytical title: Meaning of History author: Brown, Norman Oliver. publisher: Wesleyan University Press isbn10 | asin: 0819561444 print isbn13: 9780819561442 ebook isbn13: 9780585370163 language: English Civilization--Philosophy, Civilization-- subject Psychological aspects, Psychohistory, Psychoanalysis, Death instinct. publication date: 1985 lcc: CB19.B69 1985eb ddc: 150.19/52 Civilization--Philosophy, Civilization-- subject: Psychological aspects, Psychohistory, Psychoanalysis, Death instinct. Page i Life Against Death Page ii ALSO BY NORMAN O. BROWN Closing Time Love' s Body Hesiod's Theogony Hermes the Thief Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis Page iii Life Against Death The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History Second Edition By Norman O. Brown With an Introduction by Christopher Lasch Page iv Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 Copyright © 1959 by Wesleyan University Introduction to the Second Edition copyright © 1985 by Christopher Lasch All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 5 Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913- Life against death. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. CivilizationPhilosophy. 2. Civilization Psychological aspects. 3. Psychohistory. 4. Psycho- analysis. 5. Death instinct. 1. Title. 19.B69 1985 150.19'52 85-17928 CB 0-8195-5148-1 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-8195-6144-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN Page v CONTENTS Introduction to the Second Edition, vii by Christopher Lasch Acknowledgments xv Preface xvii Part One: The Problem I 3 The Disease Called Man II 11 Neurosis and History Part Two: Eros III 23 Sexuality and Childhood IV 40 The Self and the Other: Narcissus V 55 Art and Eros VI 68 Language and Eros Part Three: Death VII 77 Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics VIII 87 Death, Time, and Eternity IX 110 Death and Childhood Page vi Part Four: Sublimation X 137 The Ambiguities of Sublimation XI 145 Couch and Culture XII 157 Apollo and Dionysus Part Five: Studies in Anality XIII 179 The Excremental Vision XIV 202 The Protestant Era XV 234 Filthy Lucre Rationality and Irrationality Sacred and Secular Utility and Uselessness Owe and Ought Time is Money Giving and Taking The City Sublime Immortality The Human Body Excrement Part Six: The Way Out XVI 307 The Resurrection of the Body Reference Notes 323 Bibliography 351 Index 361
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