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On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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What Does Freud Think About Science and Technology?

Freud had good reason to think that people were fundamentally aggressive. He theorized that human suffering came from three sources: our own bodies, nature and relations with other people. civilization is also about how we have brought those hellish other people into ourselves., writes David Frum.

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