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In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the death drive theory; and contemplates the significance of guilt and conscience in everyday life. The result is Freud's most expansive work, one wherein he discusses mysticism, love, interpretation, narcissism, religion, happiness, technology, beauty, justice, work, the origin of civilization, phylogenetic development, Christianity, the Devil, communism, the sense of guilt, remorse, and ethics. A classic, important, accessible work, Freud reminds us again why we still read and debate his ideas today.
Todd Dufresne's introduction expands on why, according to the late Freud, psychoanalysis is the key to understanding individual and collective realities or, better yet, collective truths. The Appendices include related writings by Freud, contemporary reviews, and scholarly responses from Marcuse, Rieff, and Ricoeur.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sigmund Freud: A Brief Chronology
Translator's Note
Civilization and its Discontents (1930)
Appendix A: Other Works of Freud
From "'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Disease" (March 1908)
From "Thought for the Times on War and Death" (1915)
From Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
From The Future of an Illusion (1927)
From Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, Why War? (1932)
From Moses and Monotheism (1939)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Civilization and Its Discontents
E. G. Catlin, "Freud No Freudian" Saturday Review (27 September 1930)
Joseph Jastrow, "Unhappiness Psycho-Analyzed" Saturday Review of Literature (6 December 1930)
Harold D. Lasswell, "Review: Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud," American Journal of Sociology (September 1931)
Appendix C: Scholarly Responses to Civilization and Its Discontents
Herbert Marcuse, "The Dialectic of Civilization" (1955)
Philip Rieff, "Freud & the Value of Religion" (1959)
Paul Ricoeur, "On Metaculture & 'Death Against Death'" (1970)
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Index