Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud with James Strachey (Translator)

127 pages first pub 1930 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 c...

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