On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud - ISBN: 9780141183794
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War, racism, and self-destruction: Freud explores humanity’s darkest depths.

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2005

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Summary

One of fifteen new translations of Freud’s key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern era’s greatest writers.

These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our ‘primitive’ past and ‘civilized’ modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores institutions of tribal life, traci…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141183794
ISBN-10:0141183799
Author:Sigmund Freud
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:31 October 2005
Weight:208g
Dimensions:17mm x 128mm x 197mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud - ISBN: 9780141183794
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About The Author

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.

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