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Civilization and Its Discontents
by: Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.1952
EAN: 9780393301588
ISBN: 0393301583
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 127
Publication Date: 1989-07
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 15177
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company

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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness?

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- The Freudian Subtraction
Freud didn't discover anything. The study of sex and aggression has been around a long, long time. What Freud 'discovered' is that there isn't anything such as Love, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Wisdom or Art. Rather than add Freud subtracted. 'Civilization and It's Discontents' documents the Freudian subtraction. Freud lopped off large parts of human nature. By and large psychoanalysis has never been of assistance to the individual qua individiual. What psychoanalysis does though is fill people with a boundless aggression as regression is the fact of psychoanalysis. There is no successful 'analysis' unless the boundless aggression brought forth by psychoanalyis, can be directed in a global way, global because of the boundlessness of the aggression. The 'Freudian climate' isn't one where dreams are finally understood or the unconcious explored, of course, a concious unconcious is nonsensical but rather where aggression ... Read More

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- Freud's Politics
Freud gives his pessimistic take on human nature and expands this formula to society as a whole. I am not sure if his argument is sound based on the fact that he went from the micro-individual to a macro view of society, but his argument was quite convincing based upon the amounts of aggression seen throughout world history, such as constant war, greed, slavery, genocide, the inquisition, scape goats, etc. etc. If anything this book made me rethink and revise my views on society and politics as a whole. It is a short read so I strongly recommend it.

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- "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
For all the celebrated shortcomings of his theories, Sigmund Freud remains, even in retrospect, the most influential thinker of the 20th century, a giant among the giants of that now by-gone era of late modernity. He still must be regarded as the most perspicuous among positivistic and systematic students of human nature and the most devoted, at least in the consistency of his ideas. His rubric for the self-referential category, "ego", is used almost universally, regardless of culture, language, or learning. Who among us hasn't used the term? Very few thinkers in any age can claim such rapid and profound widespread assimilation of their ideas as Freud. He was also first among the moderns, really the first since Montaigne, to formally prioritize self-knowledge among all types of knowledge, and, reverting to a very ancient idea, perceive the telos or fruit of the attainment of knowledge as therapeutic. While James and ... Read More

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