On Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents"
New Books in Psychoanalysis
What Is Civilization for Freud?
Freud argued that people repress memories that are painful. He came up with a theory of trama, that they had been sexually dramatized in early life. Freud spent the first decades of his career focused on the psychology of individuals. But by 19 29 he zoomed out to talk about civilization more broadly.
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