Synopsis
The essays collected in this volume are "Civilisation and its Discontents", "Totem and Taboo", "Moses and Monotheism" and "The Future of an Illusion". Together, they make up a complete theory of society - how it was formed, how it works and how it affects the group and the individual within it.
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Review
Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work along with a note on the individual volume --Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History at Yale
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