Fülszöveg
Civilization and Its Discontents
By Sigmund Freud
In a new translation by James Strachey
CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS is one of the last of
Freud's books, written in the decade before his death. In it
he makes known his views on the broad question of man's
place in the world, which he sees in terms of the never-ending
conflict of the claim of the individual for freedom and the
demands of society.
Writing of the book The Spectator says: "The theme is a
very simple one which has often been foreshadowed in
Freud's earlier work. Civilization is only made possible by
individual renouncement. The instinctive life of man is one
of aggression and egoistic self-satisfaction. The whole struc-
ture of culture has been designed to put prohibitions and
curbs on him. . . • The sense of guilt has become the maker
of civilized humanity. . . . The theme is developed with the
greatest richness of content and one might use many columns
without exhausting the invaluable dicta of...
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Fülszöveg
Civilization and Its Discontents
By Sigmund Freud
In a new translation by James Strachey
CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS is one of the last of
Freud's books, written in the decade before his death. In it
he makes known his views on the broad question of man's
place in the world, which he sees in terms of the never-ending
conflict of the claim of the individual for freedom and the
demands of society.
Writing of the book The Spectator says: "The theme is a
very simple one which has often been foreshadowed in
Freud's earlier work. Civilization is only made possible by
individual renouncement. The instinctive life of man is one
of aggression and egoistic self-satisfaction. The whole struc-
ture of culture has been designed to put prohibitions and
curbs on him. . . • The sense of guilt has become the maker
of civilized humanity. . . . The theme is developed with the
greatest richness of content and one might use many columns
without exhausting the invaluable dicta of men and their
institutions which strew the book."
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