Book, Times of War and death[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Times of Life and Death" brings together two essays by Freud, both largely motivated by the First World War.. The first, “Contemporary Considerations on War and Death”, from 1915, confronts two realities: the individual and the group, or the species. It brings a certain dissatisfaction with the destiny of human beings, it puts our “rationality” into question and alerts us to what we should not ignore.: our death drives. In the second text, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, from 1920, Freud reflects on the daily medical routine surrounding the treatment of soldiers who returned from war, also based on the observation of a game his grandson played when he acted out the experience of his mother’s disappearance and reappearance.. Like so many others in Freud's vast and heterogeneous work, these are indispensable texts for our understanding of today's world.