Translation from the second German edition and edited by L.S. Vygotsky and A.R. Luria. m. Modern problems 1925. 110(2)s. Cover, reduced format. The book contains a number of important clinical provisions and to this day remains a fundamental work on the treatment of traumatic neuroses, gives clues to the understanding of the neurosis of obsessive states, melancholy and depression. Nevertheless, most of Freud’s followers took the work very cautiously, considering the thesis that there was a desire for death unproven. Of the neo-Freudian schools, only the followers of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, in a highly rethought form, acknowledge the existence of a death drive.