Abstract
During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.
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TributeWitnessPsychoanalytic theoryCivilizationAggressionPerspective (graphical)PsychoanalysisAdversaryHistoryEpistemologyPhilosophyPsychologyArtArt historyLawPolitical scienceSocial psychologyArchaeologyVisual arts
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Sigmund Freud
(2018).
Civilization and Its Discontents.
Princeton University Press eBooks
, 523-529.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19fvzzk.47
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- 10.2307/j.ctv19fvzzk.47