Civilization and Its Discontents
- ISBN-10
- 0141182369
- ISBN-13
- 9780141182360
- Series
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 103
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-07-04
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Sigmund Freud
Description
In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. As early as 1908, he produced a powerful paper on the repressive hypocrisy of 'civilized sexual morality', and its role in 'modern nervous illness'. Deepening this analysis in Civilization and Its Discontents, he argues that civilized values - and the impossible ideals of Christianity - inevitably distort our natural aggression and impose a terrible burden of guilt. It is also here that Freud developed his last great theoretical innovation: the strange and haunting notion of an innate death drive, locked in a constant struggle with the forces of Eros.
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