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"In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. As early as 1908, he produced a powerful paper on the repressive hypocrisy of 'civilized sexual morality', and its role in 'modern nervous illness'. Deepening this analysis in Civilization and Its Discontents, he argues that civilized values - and the impossible ideals of Christianity - inevitably distort our natural aggression and impose a terrible burden of guilt. It is also here that Freud developed his last great theoretical innovation: the strange and haunting notion of an innate death drive, locked in a constant struggle with the forces of Eros."--Publisher website
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
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- Released
- 2002
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- (Paperback),
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- Title
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sigmund Freud
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0141182369
- ISBN13
- 9780141182360
- Series
- Tags
- Psychological Topics, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Culture, Studying, Scientific Theories, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Atheism, Philosophy of Culture
- First published
- 1930
- Original title
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- "In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. As early as 1908, he produced a powerful paper on the repressive hypocrisy of 'civilized sexual morality', and its role in 'modern nervous illness'. Deepening this analysis in Civilization and Its Discontents, he argues that civilized values - and the impossible ideals of Christianity - inevitably distort our natural aggression and impose a terrible burden of guilt. It is also here that Freud developed his last great theoretical innovation: the strange and haunting notion of an innate death drive, locked in a constant struggle with the forces of Eros."--Publisher website