Penguin Modern Classics: On Murder, Mourning And Melancholia

Bereavement and loss, sorrow and depression, the most devastating of human emotions, are considered in some of Freud's most tender, compassionate and insightful work. As full of sympathetic human interest as of scientific insight, these writings are also remarkable, revelatory works of literature.

This volume will contain Totem and Taboo, Mourning and Melancholia, On Transience, Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, Why War, A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis.