 Death will no longer be denied ; we are forced to believe in him. People really are dying, and now not one by one, but many at a time, often ten thousand in a single day. Nor is it any longer an accident. To be sure, it still seems a matter of chance...  Making Sense of Dying and Death - Page 74edited by - 2004 - 229 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Philip Rieff - Psychology - 1979 - 468 pages
..."sweep away" this enervating "conventional treatment of death." War returns us to our sense of reality. "Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in it" ยป I do not mean to exaggerate this profound eccentricity among Freud's ideas. The notion of rebarbarization... | |
 | James Longenbach - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 348 pages
...Freud was writing in "Reflections upon War and Death" (1915) that "the war is bound to sweep away [the] conventional treatment of death. Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in him. People really are dying, and now not one by one, but many at a time, often ten thousand in a single... | |
 | James Longenbach - Electronic books - 1991 - 358 pages
..."Our Attitude Towards Death" (1915) Freud predicted that the war would sweep away civilized people's conventional treatment of death: "Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in him. People really are dying, and now not one by one, but many at a time, often ten thousand in a single... | |
 | Joel Whitebook - Philosophy - 1996 - 372 pages
...has, indeed, become interesting again; it has recovered its full content." The reason for this is that "death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in it. People really die." 211 ' While the strident tone of this remark may result from Freud's struggle to master his own anguish... | |
 | Armando Petrucci - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 244 pages
...natural tendency of modern man to "'shelve' death, to eliminate it from life" was revealed as vanity. "Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in him. People really are dying, and now not one by one, but many at a time, often ten thousand in a single... | |
 | Richard Sheppard - Art - 2000 - 496 pages
...us via the war: "Der Tod lasst sich jetzt nicht mehr verleugnen; man muss an ihn glauben" (10:344) [Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in it (him) (14:291)]. After the war, in Jensetts des Lustprinzips (1919-20) (Beyond the Pleasure Principle,... | |
 | Jenny Edkins - Architecture - 2003 - 292 pages
...corpses, but who experienced bereavement.'90 The war changed attitudes to death; in Freud's words: 'Death will no longer be denied; we are forced to believe in it. People really die.'91 During the First World War another form of witnessing was important, and that was the testimony... | |
 | Samuel Weber - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 164 pages
...identified ourselves; yet we survive him, and are ready to die again just as safely with another hero. It is evident that war is bound to sweep away this conventional treatment of death. Death can no longer be denied; we are compelled to believe in it. People really die, and no longer one by... | |
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