Why War? The Einstein-Freud Letters

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In 1932 the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein wrote a public letter to the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Einstein, a keen advocate of the League of Nations and peace campaigner, asked Freud if he thought war and aggression was forever tied to human psychology and the course of international relations: could we ever secure lasting world peace? Einstein's letter is deeply prescient, as is Freud' s extraordinary response.