![]() ![]() 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. "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."įor 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. Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves. ![]() ![]() 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. 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. ![]() 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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