num_pages: 70
description: Civilization &amp; Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: 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, indeed the death drive &amp; its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity &amp; fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, &amp; the effects of repression. Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker &amp; professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought &amp; why it's become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.
language: English
title: Civilization and Its Discontents
titlecomplete: Civilization and Its Discontents
genres: Sociology, Psychology, Classics, History, School, Theory, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 39359
series: Obras Incompletas de Sigmund Freud, Споконвічна мудрість
publisher: Dover Publications