Civilization and Its Discontents (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

Civilization and Its Discontents (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

by SigmundFreud (Author)

Synopsis

During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Edition: Reissue
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 06 Mar 1985

ISBN 10: 0393301583
ISBN 13: 9780393301588

Media Reviews
Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work along with a note on the individual volume --Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale
Author Bio
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others. Peter Gay (1923--2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.