| Edition |
2nd ed. / with an introduction by Christopher Lasch. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 366 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the second edition / Christopher Lasch -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Problem -- 1: Disease called man -- 2: Neurosis and history -- Part 2: Eros -- 3: Sexuality and childhood -- 4: Self and the other: narcissus -- 5: Art and Eros -- 6: Language and Eros -- Part 3: Death -- 7: Instinctual dualism and instinctual dialectics -- 8: Death, time, and eternity -- 9: Death and childhood -- Part 4: Sublimation -- 10: Ambiguities of sublimation -- 11: Couch and culture -- 12: Apollo and Dionysus -- Part 5: Studies In Anality -- 13: Excremental vision -- 14: Protestant era -- 15: Filthy lucre -- Rationality and irrationality -- Sacred and secular -- Utility and uselessness -- Owe and ought -- Time is money -- Giving and taking -- City sublime -- Immortality -- Human body -- Excrement -- Part 6: Way Out -- 16: Resurrection of the body -- Reference notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Product Description: A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Civilization -- Philosophy. |
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Civilization -- Psychological aspects.
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Civilization -- Psychological aspects. |
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Civilization. |
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Psychohistory.
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Psychohistory. |
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Death instinct.
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Death instinct. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913-2002. Life against death. 2nd ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985, ©1959 0819551481 (DLC) 85017928 (OCoLC)12422094 |
| ISBN |
0585370168 (electronic book) |
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9780585370163 (electronic book) |
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9780819570536 (electronic book) |
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0819570532 (electronic book) |
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0819551481 |
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9780819551481 |
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0819561444 |
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9780819561442 |
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