Civilisation and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere

Civilisation and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere

146 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology reflective slow-paced

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Reprint of the 1930 American edition. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization'...

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