After seeing the trauma of veterans from the first World War, this psychologist wrote about how Thanatos, the death drive, conflicts with Eros, the life drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
This thinker compared an "American flirtation in which it is understood from the beginning that nothing is to happen" to the impoverished life that results from lack of risk or stakes. This thinker claimed that the original sin must have been a patricide against the "God Father," and that organic life has an "urge" to restore an earlier, inorganic state of things. This author argued that we wish the death of strangers but are ambivalent towards those we love in "Reflections on War and Death," and that war strips away the pretense of our (*) civilized attitude toward death. After seeing the trauma of veterans from the first World War, this psychologist wrote about how Thanatos, the death drive, conflicts with Eros, the life drive in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. For 10 points, name this psychoanalyst who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams.
This thinker compared an "American flirtation in which it is understood from the beginning that nothing is to happen" to the impoverished life that results from lack of risk or stakes.
Sigmund Freud