Civilization and Its Discontents (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, #0) (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) (Penguin Great Ideas)

by Sigmund Freud

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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 late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.
  • ISBN10 0393301583
  • ISBN13 9780393301588
  • Publish Date 17 September 1989 (first published 17 December 1963)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 August 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 160
  • Language English