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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Norman O. Brown

Follow Norman O. Brown from repression and childhood through death, religion, and money to his speculative hope for a fuller bodily life.

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16 parts, about 30 minutes to read.

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Author
Norman O. Brown
Parts
16 parts
Reading time
about 30 minutes

What the summary covers

  1. I. The Disease Called Man2 min
  2. II. Neurosis and History2 min
  3. III. Sexuality and Childhood2 min
  4. IV. The Self and the Other: Narcissus2 min
  5. V. Art and Eros1 min
  6. VI. Language and Eros1 min
  7. VII. Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics1 min
  8. VIII. Death, Time, and Eternity2 min
  9. IX. Death and Childhood2 min
  10. X. The Ambiguities of Sublimation1 min
  11. XI. Couch and Culture1 min
  12. XII. Apollo and Dionysus2 min
  13. XIII. The Excremental Vision2 min
  14. XIV. The Protestant Era2 min
  15. XV. Filthy Lucre5 min
  16. XVI. The Resurrection of the Body2 min

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