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Civilization and Its Discontents - Couverture souple

Freud, Sigmund

 
9781453833896: Civilization and Its Discontents
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1453833897 ISBN 13 : 9781453833896
Editeur : Createspace Independent Pub, 2010

Synopsis

Reprint of the 1930 American edition. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such commandments are broken. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens.Contributors

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Reprint of the 1930 American edition. In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts (for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification) are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such commandments are broken. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens.

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Éditeur
Createspace Independent Pub
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1453833897
ISBN 13 
9781453833896
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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