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Quotation from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud
“We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators”
Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918)
The starting point of the second essay: Freud's claim that in the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Citation: "We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we find that we survive ourselves as spectators" — Sigmund Freud, Reflections on War and Death, Part II, 'Our Attitude Towards Death', trans. A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (1918). (id freud-reflections-on-war-and-death-q5)
