{"product_id":"reflections-on-war-and-death","title":"Ajatuksia sodasta ja kuolemasta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if civilization is only a thin coat over feelings that war can lay bare?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Reflections on War and Death, Sigmund Freud brings psychoanalysis to two unsettling questions: why civilized nations turn to cruelty, and why our own death feels unreal. Written in 1915, these two essays confront the First World War while two of Freud’s sons serve at the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Disillusionment of the War examines the collapse of shared moral rules, from the state’s use of violence to the impulses beneath civilized behavior. Our Attitude Towards Death turns inward. Freud asks how the mind keeps mortality at a distance, and what happens when war makes that distance impossible to maintain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCivilization under strain\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore Freud’s argument that shared culture and good manners cannot erase older impulses.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe state’s double standard\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow his challenge to states that permit the violence they forbid their citizens.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOld feelings beneath manners\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider a mind where early states remain alongside later habits and moral rules.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDeath kept at a distance\u003c\/strong\u003e – Examine Freud’s claim that we struggle to picture the end of our own lives.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThought amid grief and anger\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a thinker responding to war as it happens, in short, direct essays.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers curious about psychoanalysis in public life, or anyone who wonders why societies break down and death feels unreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and follow Freud into the uneasy space between civilized ideals and hidden feelings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534706770268,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/08888_en_ebook-front_c26.jpg?v=1792175114","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/fi\/products\/reflections-on-war-and-death","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}