Civilization and Its Discontents
by Sigmund Freud
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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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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 8 featured editions. View all 28 editions?
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Civilization and Its Discontents
2010, W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
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in English
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Civilization and Its Discontents
January 30, 2005, W. W. Norton & Company
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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"Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is in a class with Plato's Republic, Milton's Paradise Lost, Marx's Capital, and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: the grounds have entirely eroded for whatever authority it once enjoyed as an ultimate account of the way things are, but we can no longer understand the way things are without taking it into account."
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