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On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Introduction

For sigmund freud, the famous psychoanalyst of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, civilization was a problem. There are a lot of positive aspects to this way of life; laws keep people safe. But civilization has its downsides: it prevents us from gratifying that aggressiveness.

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