{"product_id":"2026100007103-secondhand-black-ship-to-hell","title":"Black Ship To Hell","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat compels humanity toward destruction — and can reason alone save us from ourselves? Brigid Brophy's ambitious and erudite Black Ship to Hell presents a sweeping psychoanalytic and philosophical inquiry into the human capacity for aggression and self-annihilation, drawing on Freudian theory, classical mythology, music, and literature to construct a rigorous argument about mankind's relationship with its own death drive. Published in 1962 by the distinguished London imprint Secker \u0026amp; Warburg, the work positions Brophy as one of the most intellectually daring voices of her generation, unafraid to synthesise the arts and sciences into a single, formidable argument.\n\nBrophy writes with the precision of a scholar and the wit of a provocateur, weaving together psychoanalysis, opera, and moral philosophy in a style that is as entertaining as it is demanding. The French epigraph drawn from Proust's Le Temps Retrouvé signals the book's lofty literary ambitions from the outset — an invitation to reconsider not merely what we know, but how and when we come to truly understand it. For readers willing to follow Brophy into the depths, Black Ship to Hell remains a electrifying and unsettling meditation on the darkest currents of the human mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130943676635,"sku":"2026100007103-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bfd1f1d1-7693-4e33-af2e-aff605342875.png?v=1786593024","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007103-secondhand-black-ship-to-hell","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}