FREUD, Sigmund.

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Reflections on War and Death. First edition in English, rare in the jacket. This collection brings together two essays written in 1915: "The Disappointments of War" and "Our Attitude Towards Death".According to Freud, war "forces us again to be heroes who cannot believe in their own death, it stamps all strangers as enemies whose death we ought to cause or wish; it counsels us to rise above the death of those whom we love. But war cannot be abolished; as long as the conditions of existence among races are so varied and the repulsions between them are so vehement, there will have to be wars" (p. 70).

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