Book
Civilization and Its Discontents
- Published
- 1930
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Pages
- 127
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/357636.Civilization_and_Its_Discontents?ac=1&from_search=true
Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity. Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt.
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TJEd Adult Recommended
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780141194981
- ISBN-10
- 0141194987
Tags
PsychoanalysisPsychologyThomas Jefferson Education Adult