A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.Introduction Acknowledgments Preface Part One: The Problem—The Disease Called Man Neurosis and History Part Two: Eros—Sexuality and Childhood, The Self and the Other: Narcissus Art and Eros Language and Eros Part Three: Death—Instinctual Dualism and Instinctual Dialectics Death, Time, and Eternity Death and Childhood Part Four: Sublimation—The Ambiguities of Sublimination Couch and Culture Apollo and Dionysus Part Five: Studies in Anality—The Excremental Vision The Protestant Era Filthy Lucre Part Six: The Way Out—Resurrection of the Body Reference Notes Bibliography IndexNORMAN O. BROWN is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also the author of Hermes the Thief: The Evolution of a Myth, Hesiod’s Theogony, Love’s Body and Closing Time. His most recent book, Apocalypse and / or Metamorphosis, completes a trilogy which includes Life Against Death and Love’s Body.“One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown’s contribution to moral thought . . . cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know.”“Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common sense…The highest praise one can give to Brown’s book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche.”
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