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Freud is best remembered for two applied works on society, 'The Future of an Illusion' and 'Civilization and its Discontents'. Yet the works of the final period are routinely denigrated as merely supplemental to the earlier, more fundamental "discoveries" of the unconscious and dream interpretation. In fact, the "cultural Freud" is sometimes considered an embarrassment to psychoanalysis. Dufresne argues that the late Freud, as brilliant as ever, was actually revealing the true meaning of his life's work. And so while 'The Future of an Illusion', 'Civilization and its Discontents', and his final work 'Moses and Monotheism' may be embarrassing to some, they validate beliefs that Freud always held - including the psychobiology that provides the missing link between the individual psychology of the early period and the psychoanalysis of culture of the final period. The result is a lively, balanced, and scholarly defense of the late Freud that doubles as a major reassessment of psychoanalysis of interest to all readers of Freud.

The late Sigmund Freud : or, the last word on psychoanalysis, society, and all the riddles of life / Todd Dufresne.

Rethink : a paraprimitive solution / Gordon Rattray Taylor.

The text explains that modern conditions cause stress, anxiety, and nervous and mental strain, which lead to "devitalization". Revitalization is accomplished by taking Phyllosan brand of chlorophyll tablets. Testimonials are provided by Prof E. Buergi MD, University of Berne, and others. The doctor tells the couple this, wagging his finger for emphasis

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 62.7 x 49 cm

Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.

From humanism to science, 1480 to 1700 / Robert Mandrou ; translated by Brian Pearce.

On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.

Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life / Adam Gopnik.

Modern insomnia : vicious circles and paradoxes of attention and will, 1860-1910 (or: how sleeplessness alarmed modernity) / Lee Andrew Walden Scrivner.

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The late Sigmund Freud : or, the last word on psychoanalysis, society, and all the riddles of life / Todd Dufresne.

Rethink : a paraprimitive solution / Gordon Rattray Taylor.

Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.

From humanism to science, 1480 to 1700 / Robert Mandrou ; translated by Brian Pearce.

Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life / Adam Gopnik.

Modern insomnia : vicious circles and paradoxes of attention and will, 1860-1910 (or: how sleeplessness alarmed modernity) / Lee Andrew Walden Scrivner.

Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, (1818-1918) / by Martin Tropp.

The invention of the self : the hinge of consciousness in the eighteenth century / John O. Lyons.

Figurations of modernity : global and local representations in comparative perspective / Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf (eds.).

Zwischen den Disziplinen? : Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung / herausgegeben von Helmut Puff und Christopher Wild.

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The late Sigmund Freud : or, the last word on psychoanalysis, society, and all the riddles of life / Todd Dufresne.

Rethink : a paraprimitive solution / Gordon Rattray Taylor.

Phyllosan: a doctor telling a couple to take Phyllosan to compensate for the stress of modern life. Halftone and letterpress, 1937.

From humanism to science, 1480 to 1700 / Robert Mandrou ; translated by Brian Pearce.

Angels and ages : a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life / Adam Gopnik.

Modern insomnia : vicious circles and paradoxes of attention and will, 1860-1910 (or: how sleeplessness alarmed modernity) / Lee Andrew Walden Scrivner.

Images of fear : how horror stories helped shape modern culture, (1818-1918) / by Martin Tropp.

The invention of the self : the hinge of consciousness in the eighteenth century / John O. Lyons.

Figurations of modernity : global and local representations in comparative perspective / Vincent Houben, Mona Schrempf (eds.).

Zwischen den Disziplinen? : Perspektiven der Frühneuzeitforschung / herausgegeben von Helmut Puff und Christopher Wild.

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