Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud with David McLintock

106 pages first pub 1930 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 i...

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informative 82%
reflective 77%
challenging 62%
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inspiring 11%
tense 5%
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