Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Thoughts for the Time of War and Death
The German edition
Author	Sigmund Freud
Original title	Zeitgemäßes über Krieg und Tod
Language	German

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 interest among lay readers of Freud.^[1]

Disillusionment

The first essay addressed the widespread disillusionment brought on by the collapse of the Pax Britannica of the preceding century^[2] — what Freud called "the common civilization of peacetime".^[3]

Discounting death

The second essay addressed what Freud called the peacetime 'protection racket' whereby the inevitability of death was expunged from civilized mentality.^[4] Building on the second essay of Totem and Taboo,^[5] Freud argued that such an attitude left civilians in particular unprepared for the stark horror of industrial-scale death in the Great War.^[6]

Influence

Freud's account of the centrality of loss in culture has been seen as seminal for his later work, Civilization and its Discontents.^[7]

References

↑ E. Jones, The life and Works of Sigmund Freud (Penguin 1964) p. 436
↑ S. Gill, Power and Resistance in the New World Order (2003) p. 37
↑ S, Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion (PFL 12) p. 65
↑ A. Phillips, On Flirtation (1994) p. xx
↑ Angela Richards, Note, in S, Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion (PFL 12) p. 59
↑ P. Gay, Sigmund Freud (1989) p. 356-7
↑ A. Drassinower, Freud's Theory of Culture (2003)

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Sigmund Freud

Books	On Aphasia Civilization and Its Discontents The Ego and the Id The Future of an Illusion Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego The History of the Psychoanalytic Movement The Interpretation of Dreams (including On Dreams) Introduction to Psychoanalysis Moses and Monotheism The Psychopathology of Everyday Life The Question of Lay Analysis Studies on Hysteria Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Totem and Taboo

Essays	"The Aetiology of Hysteria" Beyond the Pleasure Principle Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva Dostoevsky and Parricide Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood Medusa's Head Mourning and Melancholia On Narcissism Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Case studies	"Dora" (Ida Bauer) Emma Eckstein Herbert Graf ("Little Hans") Irma's injection "Anna O." (Bertha Pappenheim) "Rat Man" Sergei Pankejeff ("Wolfman")

Family	Amalia Freud (mother) Jacob Freud (father) Martha Bernays (wife) Anna Freud (daughter) Ernst L. Freud (son) Edward Bernays (nephew) Clement Freud (grandson) Lucian Freud (grandson) Walter Freud (grandson)

Other	Bibliography Archives Vienna home and museum London home and museum statue Freudian slip Humor Inner circle Neo-Freudianism Views on homosexuality Religious views

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