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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of… — Sigmund Freud

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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.

In the original German

Wir glauben, die Kultur ist unter dem Antrieb der Lebensnot auf Kosten der Triebbefriedigung geschaffen worden, und sie wird zum großen Tiel immer wieder von neuem erschaffen.

Sigmund Freud
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1917
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Civilization
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1917
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Sigmund Freud
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Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.
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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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