085285
Middletown, Connecticut
1970
15,5×23
tvrdi
366
engleski
Price: 15,00 EUR
"Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History" is a 1959 social philosophy book by Norman O. Brown that uses a radical reinterpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis to critique Western civilization and advocate for a non-repressive culture. Brown argues that human culture is built upon the repression and sublimation of instinctual erotic energy, leading to a state of universal neurosis, guilt, and the pursuit of "dead" things like money and history to achieve a form of immortality and deny death. He expands psychoanalysis beyond a clinical tool into a means of analyzing the "general neurosis of mankind". The book was a major influence on the counterculture of the 1960s, appealing to those seeking radical social and personal liberation.
