Book, Times of war and death[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "Times of Life and Death" brings together two essays by Freud, largely both 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, calls 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 medical routine surrounding the treatment of soldiers who returned from war, also based on the observation of a game his grandson played when reenacting the experience of disappearance. and reappearance of the mother. Like so many others in Freud's vast and heterogeneous work, they are indispensable texts for our understanding of the world today.