Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

In 1915, soon after World war I broke out, Sigmund Freud wrote about the disillusionment of war and the conflicting dynamics of individual and collective morality, in this timely and timeless piece. Freud analyzed the harmony of paradoxes in the co-existence of opposites. The naive illusion of the civilized Disillusionment is, in essence, a result…