Civilization and Its Discontents (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

Autorentext

I do not know how familiar some of you may be, either from your reading or from hearsay, with psychoanalysis. But, in keeping with the title of these lectures-A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis-I am obliged to proceed as though you knew nothing about this subject, and stood in need of preliminary instruction.

Klappentext

Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud's most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today's society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the human drives for pleasure and aggression can ever be reconciled. This lively new translation with helpful explanatory notes captures Freud's engaging tone for a twenty-first-century audience and includes essays by two of Freud's most insightful and renowned interpreters, historian Carl E. Schorske and philosopher Richard Rorty.