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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 ...
- Sigmund Freud
- 1915
Thoughts for the Times on War and Death. (1915) Note. In this essay, written about six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Freud expresses his disillusionment about human nature and the supreme institution of the civilized world, namely the state.
Sigmund Freud begins "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" by lamenting Europe's degenerate state. Millions of soldiers are caught up in World War I (1914–18) while people at home feel disillusioned by the unwelcome changes that have befallen the continent.
"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" refers to the essay's subject matter. Author Sigmund Freud explores how World War I (1914–18) caused people to become disillusioned with modern society and forced them to reevaluate their relationship with death. Summary.
Freud, Sigmund. "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death". Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World, edited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griffin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp. 118-118.
The present translation is based on the one published in 1925. These two essays were written round about March and April, 1915, some six months after the outbreak of the first World War, and express some of Freud's considered views on it.
Exploded Manuscript: Thoughts for the Times on War and Death - Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture | Exhibitions - Library of Congress. The Library of Congress > Exhibitions > Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture > Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.
