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  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141194981
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 104
  • RRP: $14.99

Civilization and Its Discontents: Popular Penguins



In his final years, Freud devoted most of his energies to a series of highly ambitious works on the broadest issues of religion and society. Here, he argues that civilized values – and the impossible ideals of Christianity - inevitably distort our natural aggression and impose a terrible burden of guilt.

  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141194981
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 104
  • RRP: $14.99

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year. His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the twentieth century.

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