During the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany, Albert
Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking the fundamental question:
What can be done to liberate humanity from the menace of war? The
psychoanalyst replied at length and their exchange of letters
(reproduced here) was published in March 1933 under the title Why
War?. The book would be included in the book burnings in Berlin on
10th of May that year. Why War? is important in Freud's work
because in it he develops a fundamental idea that leads him to
conclude that the life and death drives are linked - a thought that
he had already entertained in works such as Death and Us (1915),
which is also included here. In a terrible irony, Freud dedicated a
copy of Why War? to Mussolini, who nonetheless instituted a police
investigation of its author. The contributors to this volume
explore the reasons underlying the dedication, as well as giving
their own reflections on the genesis of war.
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