{"product_id":"reflections-on-war-and-death-freud","title":"Reflections on War and Death","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Sigmund Freud\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflections on War and Death is a classic historical psychology study by Sigmund Freud. Thoughts for the Time of War and Death is a set of twin essays written by Sigmund Freud in 1915  six months after the outbreak of World War I. The essays express discontent and disillusionment with human nature and human society in the aftermath of the hostilities; and generated much interest among lay readers of Freud. The first essay addressed the widespread disillusionment brought on by the collapse of the Pax Britannica of the preceding century-what Freud called \"the common civilization of peacetime. The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime 'protection racket' whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality. Building on the second essay of Totem and Taboo  Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War. Freud's account of the centrality of loss in culture has been seen as seminal for his later work  Civilization and its Discontents. Caught in the whirlwind of these war times  without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have already occurred or are about to be enacted  lacking all premonition of the future  it is small wonder that we ourselves become confused as to the meaning of impressions which crowd in upon us or of the value of the judgments we are forming. It would seem as though no event had ever destroyed so much of the precious heritage of mankind  confused so many of the clearest intellects or so thoroughly debased what is highest.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52437643297048,"sku":"9781631829567","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52437643329816,"sku":"9781639231287","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9781631829567.jpg?v=1784923938","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/reflections-on-war-and-death-freud","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}