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Coles Reflections on War and Death: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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In this penetrating pair of essays, Sigmund Freud confronts two of civilization's most unsettling truths: war and death. Written with the urgency of a world at war, the work explores the psychological forces that make violence possible and the emotional defenses people erect against mortality. Freud argues that civilized people often deny death in daily life, living as though it were abstract and remote; this denial can make life timid, emotionally narrowed, and less adventurous. Fiction and theater, he suggests, provide a safe rehearsal for death, but war shatters that illusion by forcing mass, unavoidable mortality into view. Turning from modern life to primitive humanity, Freud traces how contradictory attitudes toward death helped shape guilt, religion, spirits, ethics, and belief in an afterlife. Beneath civilized restraint, he finds unconscious death wishes, revenge, and ambivalence even toward loved ones. Classical and literary examples, including Achilles' lament in the underworld and Heine's ironic parody, underscore the bleakness of death and the stubborn human longing for life. The result is a brief, forceful meditation on human nature, loss, and the fragile hope for peace. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
In this penetrating pair of essays, Sigmund Freud confronts two of civilization's most unsettling truths: war and death. Written with the urgency of a world at war, the work explores the psychological forces that make violence possible and the emotional defenses people erect against mortality. Freud argues that civilized people often deny death in daily life, living as though it were abstract and remote; this denial can make life timid, emotionally narrowed, and less adventurous. Fiction and theater, he suggests, provide a safe rehearsal for death, but war shatters that illusion by forcing mass, unavoidable mortality into view. Turning from modern life to primitive humanity, Freud traces how contradictory attitudes toward death helped shape guilt, religion, spirits, ethics, and belief in an afterlife. Beneath civilized restraint, he finds unconscious death wishes, revenge, and ambivalence even toward loved ones. Classical and literary examples, including Achilles' lament in the underworld and Heine's ironic parody, underscore the bleakness of death and the stubborn human longing for life. The result is a brief, forceful meditation on human nature, loss, and the fragile hope for peace. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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