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Thoughts for the Time of War and Death (German: Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod) 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 ...
- Sigmund Freud
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Thoughts for the Times on War and Death. (1915) Note. In this essay, written about six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Freud expresses his disillusionment about human nature and the supreme institution of the civilized world, namely the state.
Sigmund Freud begins "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" by lamenting Europe's degenerate state. Millions of soldiers are caught up in World War I (1914–18) while people at home feel disillusioned by the unwelcome changes that have befallen the continent. Only a few years before, Europeans had believed themselves too civilized for war ...
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death. In: Carrington, K. and Griffin, S. ed. Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World . Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 118-118.
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Sigmund Freud, 1915. Curator's Comments. The war years brought death to the center of Freud's thinking and his personal life. In his bleak outlook, Freud understood war to be a resurgence of the violent past that humankind was incapable of leaving behind. Back to top.
by. Sigmund Freud. This book is a profound exploration of the psychological impact of war and death on the human psyche. The author, a renowned psychologist, delves into the collective guilt and anxiety experienced by society during wartime, and the denial of death's inevitability as a self-preserving mechanism.
