Book · 1929 · Nonfiction

Civilization and Its Discontents

Name: Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Sigmund Freud

W. W. Norton · 186 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

Freud's answer to why we are unhappy: civilization survives only by making us surrender aggression and desire, and the aggression we cannot spend outward turns inward as a permanent, unpayable sense of guilt.

Genre

Political philosophy Philosophy Sociology

Subject

Primitive cultures Individual vs. society Civilization

Time

1929

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Quote · 1651

“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

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“We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.”

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Quote · 1867

“Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.”

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