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Civilization and Its Discontents by Freud, Sigmund
by Freud, Sigmund | PB | VeryGood
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 0393301583
- Book Title
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Book Series
- Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Ser.
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Features
- Reprint
- Genre
- Psychology, History
- Topic
- Civilization, Movements / Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Movements / Behaviorism
- Item Weight
- 4.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393301583
ISBN-13
9780393301588
eBay Product ID (ePID)
381714
Product Key Features
Book Title
Civilization and Its Discontents
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1989
Topic
Civilization, Movements / Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Movements / Behaviorism
Features
Reprint
Genre
Psychology, History
Book Series
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
4.3 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
Newly designed in a uniform format, each new paperback in the Standard Edition opens with a biographical essay on Freud's life and work--along with a note on the individual volume
Series Volume Number
0
Dewey Decimal
131
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
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.Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity.Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt.Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions., Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death and first published in German in 1929. In it he states his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, a place Freud defines in terms of ceaseless conflict between the individual's quest for freedom and society's demand for conformity. Freud's theme is that what works for civilization doesn't necessarily work for man. Man, by nature aggressive and egotistical, seeks self-satisfaction. But culture inhibits his instinctual drives. The result is a pervasive and familiar guilt. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.
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