Civilization and its discontents
by Sigmund Freud
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Originally published in 1930, this book seeks to answer ultimate questions. What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this classic work, Freud addresses the contest between aggression and eros, and speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.
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Civilization, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and culture, Social psychology, Psicología social, Civilización, CHR 1989, Psychanalyse et culture, Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory, Psykoanalys, Kultur, Psychoanalyse, Psychanalyse, Civilisation, Psychologie sociale, Literary collectionsShowing 7 featured editions. View all 28 editions?
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Civilization and Its Discontents
2010, W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback
in English
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Civilization and Its Discontents (Penguin Modern Classics)
July 4, 2002, Penguin Books Ltd
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Civilization and its discontents
1994, Dover Publications
in English
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Civilization and its discontents
1961, W. W. Norton, W W Norton & Co Inc
in English and German
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Translation of: Das Unbehagen in der Kultur.
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 107-111.
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"Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization’s trajectory? Freud’s theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. " - W. W. Norton & Co.
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