

Reflections on War and Death
Author: Sigmund Freud
Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Unabridged: 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Loudly
Published: 02/16/2024
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Author: Sigmund Freud
Narrator: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)
Unabridged: 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Loudly
Published: 02/16/2024
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century, Freud's theories have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. Freud's fundamental idea was that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy. His first major work was The Interpretation of Dreams, which established the importance of the psychoanalytical movement. His other writings include Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Future of an Illusion, The Ego and the Id, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
interesting perspective on the balance between war and injustice - and how society 'weights' that balance even as the scales start to break down even as the individual is forced to make progressively violent choices - that will destroy any hope of reconciliation. Seems to happen all over the world -......more
"عالم النفس" بالمفهوم الحديث عليه أن يكتب بالمنهجيّة العلميّة ويجمع البيانات الغزيرة الموثّقة ويبني عليها استنتاجاته أمّا فرويد فكان يتبعه حدسه الذي غذّاه بآلاف الحالات لمرضاه وآلاف الساعات التأمليّة والبحثيّة عدم تأطيره بالمنهج العلمي التجريبي أكسبته شجاعةً فكريّة تصلّ حدّ الجرأة وجعلته يصرف النظريّات من كي......more
Probably the most interesting thing I've read by Freud. It starts off giving a tepid defense of Germany during ww1, and an anti-war shpiel, which sounds both libertarian-humanist and reactionary-revisionist-nationalist to modern ears. Then goes on to discuss death itself and how we think about it, f......more