Hardcover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7 - 9. James Strachey (Translated by), James Strachey (Editor). Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves. FREUD, SIGMUND (STRACHEY, JAMES ED.) Civilization and Its Discontents. Civilization and Its Discontents By Sigmund Freud, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by). Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker, and professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought and why it has become such a landmark book for the history of ideas. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression. James Strachey (1887-1967) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a noted translator of Sigmund Freud into English. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. Civilization and Its Discontents (Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud) Sigmund Freud, Louis Menand. For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of the seminal work with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand.Ĭivilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work.
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