Freud's most wide-ranging work applies psychoanalytic thinking to human civilization itself. He argues that culture is built on the repression of instinctual drives — particularly the erotic and aggressive — and that the resulting tension between instinct and civilization is the source of humanity's pervasive sense of discontent.
8 chapters · Public domain
1
I — The Oceanic Feeling and the Ego
~17 min · 9 pages
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II — Happiness and the Pleasure Principle
~21 min · 11 pages
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III — What Is Civilization?
~23 min · 12 pages
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IV — Love and the Origins of Civilization
~11 min · 5 pages
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V — Eros Against Civilization
~16 min · 7 pages
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VI — The Sense of Guilt
~10 min · 5 pages
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VII — The Superego of Civilization
~20 min · 10 pages
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VIII — Eros and the Death Drive
~23 min · 11 pages
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