Civilization & Its′ Discontents (Paper) (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) - Softcover

Freud, S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393301583 ISBN 13: 9780393301588

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985

Synopsis

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.

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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

About the Author:

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others. Peter Gay (1923--2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0393301583
• ISBN 13: 9780393301588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160