- Civilization, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and culture, Social psychology
"Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted.
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Spare, character-led, contemplative and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Sigmund Freud
- First published
- 1930
- Pages
- 121
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press, The Institute of psycho-analysis, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Hogarth Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780393059953
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“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement––that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
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