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Love's Body Books by Norman 0, Brown APOCALYPSE AND/OR METAMORPHOSIS LOVE'S BODY LIFE AGAINST DEATH HESIOD'S THEOGONY HERMES THE THIEF LOVE'S BODY By Norman O. Brown University of California Press Berkeley • Los Angeles • London This book is a print-on-demand volume. It is manufactured using toner in place of ink. Type and images may be less sharp than the same material seen in traditionally printed University of California Press editions. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1966 by Norman O. Brown Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brown, Norman O., 1913- Love's body / by Norman O. Brown p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, 1966. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-520-07105-0. – ISBN 0-520-07106-9 (pbk.) 1. Psychoanalysis and culture. 2. Civilization—Psychological aspects. 3. Psychoanalysis and religion. I. Title. BF175.4.C84B76 1990 150.19'52—dc20 90-34738 CIP Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1984. © 0 ver the years in which I have been not writing and writing this book (1958-1965), two universities have given me sabbatical leaves: Wesleyan University and the Uni- versity of Rochester. Two foundations have matched these leaves with equal grants: The Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behaviorial Sciences. One foundation gave me a refuge in a summer of distress: The Yaddo Foundation. I must acknowledge that money has been given to me generously, and freely; with- out conditions, and without suggestions; with laissez-faire. And, more than money: the many hands and heads at my service in offices and libraries, that remain anonymous. Alfenis pedibus ambulamus. Thanks to the publishers, a page has been designed which, by including the references in the body of the text, is a perpetual acknowledgement of my indebtedness to a very great company, both living and dead: rny authorities, my authors. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix 1 Liberty 3 II Nature 32 III Trinity 56 IV Unity 80 V Person go VI Representative 109 VII Head 126 VIII Boundary 141 IX Food 162 X Fire 176 XI Fraction 184 vii CONTENTS viii XII Resurrection 191 XIII Fulfillment 215 XIV Judgment 232 XV Freedom- 243 XVI Nothing 256 Bibliography 267 A t least in the life of the mind, ventures should be carried through to the end. This book is a. continuation of a voyage begun with Life Against Death; a continuation faintly foreshadowed in the last chapter of that book, "The Resurrection of the Body." But as is said over and over again at the end of Euripides' plays, the demonic is poly- morphous; the gods decree many surprises; expectations were not realized; God found an opening for the un- expected; that was the way this business turned out. The continuity is fractured, and one item from the record is missing here, a Phi Beta Kappa Oration delivered to the Columbia University Chapter in May 1960 and published in Harpers Magazine in May 1961 under the title, "Apoca- lypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind." It records a shaking of the foundations; and faintly fore- shadows, like false dawn, the end. N. O. Brown
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