REFLECTIONS ON
WAR and DEATH

By DR. SIGMUND FREUD LL.D.

Authorized translation by
Dr. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner

The present World War has shaken Humanity to its soul
depths and has changed radically the attitude of the human
mind toward many things. The relations of life and death
—the value of life and the meaning of death—are considered
to-day much as the primitive man considered them. War
strips off the later deposits of civilization and makes the primi-
tive man in us re-appear.

This is a vital and important subject for the psychologist, and
Professor Freud examines and analyzes it with keen insight and
a profound knowledge of the mental processes that determine
human character. There is no greater master of psycho-
analysis to-day than Professor Freud and, in this striking
monograph, he gives us the results of his study of the effects
of war and death on mankind to-day.

"War," he writes, "forces us again to be primitive heroes who
cannot believe in our own death. It stamps alien people as
strangers whose death is to be sought, and it enables us to rise
without emotion above the shock of the death of friends." Al-
together the book is an amazing and startling statement of
modern psychological conditions.

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