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    Reflections on War and Death
    Reflections on War and Death
    Reflections on War and Death
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    Reflections on War and Death

    By A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill, Alfred B. Kuttner and Sigmund Freud

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      Reflections on War and Death - A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill

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      Title: Reflections on War and Death

      Author: Sigmund Freud

      Translator: A. A. Brill

      Alfred B. Kuttner

      Release Date: April 15, 2011 [EBook #35875]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REFLECTIONS ON WAR AND DEATH ***

      Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

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      REFLECTIONS

      ON WAR AND DEATH

      REFLECTIONS

      ON WAR AND DEATH

      By

      PROFESSOR DR. SIGMUND FREUD, LL.D.

      Authorized English Translation By

      DR. A. A. BRILL and

      ALFRED B. KUTTNER

      MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY

      NEW YORK

      1918

      Copyright, 1918, by

      MOFFAT, YARD, AND COMPANY

      This book is offered to the American public at the present time in the hope that it may contribute something to the cause of international understanding and good will which has become the hope of the world.

      THE TRANSLATORS.

      REFLECTIONS

      ON WAR AND DEATH

      I

      THE DISAPPOINTMENTS OF WAR

      CAUGHT in the whirlwind of these war times, without any real information or any perspective upon the great changes that have already occurred or are about to be enacted, lacking all premonition of the future, it is small wonder that we ourselves become confused as to the meaning of impressions which crowd in upon us or of the value of the judgments we are forming. It would seem as though no event had ever destroyed so much of the precious heritage of mankind, confused so many of the clearest intellects or so thoroughly debased what is highest.

      Even science has lost her dispassionate impartiality. Her deeply embittered votaries are intent upon seizing her weapons to do their share in the battle against the enemy. The anthropologist has to declare his opponent inferior and degenerate, the psychiatrist must diagnose him as mentally deranged. Yet it is probable that we are affected out of all proportion by the evils of these times and have no right to compare them with the evils of other times through which we have not lived.

      The individual who is not himself a combatant and therefore has not become a cog in the gigantic war machinery, feels confused in his bearings and hampered in his activities. I think any little suggestion that will make it easier for him to see his way more clearly will be welcome. Among the factors which cause the stay-at-home so much spiritual misery and are so hard to endure there are two in particular which I should like to emphasize and discuss. I mean the disappointment that this war has called forth and the altered attitude towards death to which it, in common with other wars, forces us.

      When I speak of disappointment everybody knows at once what I mean. One need not be a sentimentalist, one may realize the biological and physiological necessity of suffering in the economy of human life, and yet one may condemn the methods and the aims of war and long for its termination. To be sure, we used to say that wars cannot cease as long as nations live under such varied conditions, as long as they place such different values upon the individual life, and as long as the animosities which divide them represent such powerful psychic forces. We were therefore quite ready to believe that for some time to come there would be wars between

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