Civilization and Its Discontents

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by Sigmund Freud,

Edited by James Stachey,

Translated by James Strachey,

Introduction by Peter Gay

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published May 1984, 112 pages, paper

ISBN 0393301583

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.