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FREUD, SIGMUND (1856-1939), Zeitgemassses uber Krieg und Tod.
Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. 1st Edition in German. [First published 1915 in Imago vol. 4 #1; first published in book form in English in 1918 as Reflections on War and Death.] 34+[6]pp. Thin octavo. Printed brown-gray wrappers with black front & rear lettering. Covers detached and quite edge-chipped, internally a partly unopened copy. With the embossed title-page stamp and call number to the front cover of The Hartford Retreat. Grinstein #10654; Grinstein Freud Bibliography #259; Norman Catalog F116. 2.0 ounces = 57 grams. 9.5 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches = 23.7 x 15.5 x 0.4cm. Smith Ely Jelliffe's copy with his autopen signature to the title and front wrapper. Stamped "Rezenionsexemplar" [Review copy] on the front cover. "Freud wrote the present work ... in an attempt to come to terms with the unprecedented horrors of the first World War, which had destroyed the illusion that humanity had progressed to a permanent high level of ethics and civilization. The second part of the work dealt with 'civilized' and 'primal' attitudes toward death, and described how war strips away the veneer of the first to reveal the second" [Norman Catalog]. Binding: PB.
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