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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

Paperback • 2005 • English

On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

By Sigmund Freud

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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, tracing analogies between the rites of hunter-gatherers and the obsessions of urban-dwellers, while Mourning and Melancholia sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern age, whi...Show more

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On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

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