Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History - Paperback

by Norman O. Brown (Author), Christopher Lasch (Other)

A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

NORMAN 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.