Transience and Politics In his 1915 essay On Transience, Freud describes a summer time stroll by a smiling countryside by which he and two companionsa taciturn pal and a younger however already well-known poetdiscuss the great thing about nature. Whereas the younger poet admires the pastoral scene that he encounters, he can not take any pleasure in it. For, as Freud explains: He was disturbed by the thought that each one this magnificence was fated to extinction, that it could vanish when winter got here like all human magnificence and all the wonder and splendour that males have created. All that he would in any other case have beloved…