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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 century. It is both witness and tribute to the... read more
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Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is in a class with Plato's Republic, Milton's Paradise Lost, Marx's Capital, and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: the grounds have entirely eroded for whatever authority it once enjoyed as an ultimate account of the way things are, but we can no longer understand the way things are without taking it into account.
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- Sigmund Freud (Author)
- James Strachey
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