Civilizations and Its Discontents

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by Sigmund Freud,

Introduction by Louis Menand

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published January 2005, 192 pages, cloth

ISBN 0393059952

What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, the death drive, and its adversary eros.