Civilization and Its Discontents

Civilization and its Discontents

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. Written in 1929, and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur . It is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts are clearly harmful to the well-being of...
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Author:Sigmund Freud
Genre:Non-fiction
Year published:1930
Number of editions:17

Author of Civilization and Its Discontents

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939
Birthplace:Příbor

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. Freud's family and ancestry were Jewish. Freud always considered himself a Jew even though he rejected Judaism and had a critical view of religion. Freud's parents were poor, but...
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
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Future of an Illusion Psychology
Totem and Taboo Fiction
Studies on Hysteria
On Narcissism
Deviant Love Novel
El Malestar En La Cultura
Ensayos Sobre La Vida Sexual Y La Teoria De Las Neurosis
joke and its relation to the unconscious
Metapsychologie
Motiv der Kästchenwahl
Œuvres complètes, psychanalyse, volume 4
Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis
Schreber case
Gesammelte Werke
Linterpretation Des Reves
On psychopathology
Moses des Michelangelo
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Les Rêves, voie royale de l'inconscient
Three Case Histories
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L'Avenir d'une illusion
problem of anxiety
Cartas A Wilhelm Flieb 1887-1904
Cinq Lecons sur la Psychanalyse
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Hysterie und Angst
Early Psychoanalytic Writings
On dreams
Viena y Manchester
Zur Aetiologie der Hysterie
Freud Para Todos
question of lay analysis
La Afasia
Ueber familiäre Formen von cerebralen Diplegien
Los Origenes Del Psicoanalisis (El Libro De Bolsillo
Sur le rêve
wolfman' and other cases
Zur Geschichte der psychoanalytischen Bewegung
Dreams in Folklore
Métapsychologie
science des rêves
Beiträge zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens
Das Ich und das Es. Metapsychologische Schriften. ( Psychologie)
Chiste y Su Relacion Con Lo Inconsciente - Una Teoria Sexual
The basic writings of Sigmund Freud
The Freud-Binswanger Letters
From 'Some character-types met with in psycho-analytical work',
Le Président Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Portrait psychologique
origin and development of psychoanalysis
cocaine papers
Freud/Jung letters
Über den Traum
Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse
My i smertʹ
Quelques considérations pour une étude comparative des paralysies motrices organiques et hystériques
Briefe an Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904
La psychopathologie de la vie quotidienne
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Über den Bau der Nervenfasern und Nervenzellen beim Flusskrebs
general selection from the works of Sigmund Freud
Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci
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mot d'esprit et ses rapports avec l'inconscient
Sur la psychanalyse
Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Und andere kulturtheoretische Schriften
Freud Silberstein Letters
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La première théorie des névroses
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Zwang, Paranoia und Perversion. (Studienausgabe) Bd. 7 von 10 u. Erg.-Bd
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Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie
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Sexuality and The Psychology of Love
Esquema del Psicoanalisis
La Histeria/ The Hysteria
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia
Dora
Case Histories 2
Werkausgabe in zwei Bänden
Basic works of Sigmund Freud
moment of transition
Névrose, psychose et perversion
Aus den Anfängen der Psychoanalyse
case of the wolf-man
3 Essays in Sexuality
De l'art et de la psychanalyse
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Civilization and Its Discontents quotes

  • Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Series containing Civilization and Its Discontents

Penguin Great Ideas: Series 1
Penguin Great Ideas: Series 1

Penguin Great Ideas: Series 1 is the first of a 3-series collection of non-fiction books published by Penguin Books.

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