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Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents | Sigmund Freud
In Civilization and Its Discontents Freud extends and clarifies his analysis of religion; analyzes human unhappiness in contemporary civilization; ratifies the critical importance of the death drive theory; and contemplates the significance of guilt and conscience in everyday life. The result is Freud’s most expansive work, one wherein he discusses mysticism, love, interpretation, narcissism, religion, happiness, technology, beauty, justice, work, the origin of civilization, phylogenetic development, Christianity, the Devil, communism, the sense of guilt, remorse, and ethics. A classic, important, accessible work, Freud reminds us again why we still read and debate his ideas today. Todd Dufresne’s introduction expands on why, according to the late Freud, psychoanalysis is the key to understanding individual and collective realities or, better yet, collective truths. The Appendices include related writings by Freud, contemporary reviews, and scholarly responses from Marcuse, Rieff, and Ricoeur.
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LowCountryKnight

I threw this book away when I was in the madhouse. I don't know why, but it just seemed like the right things to do - I guess I did it because I realized that I was reading too many books or something, and it just seemed insane to read a man so closely involved in psychiatry. Nevertheless, I read it before - in my own language - and it seems to me a deep language-game, to use Wittgenstein's phrase, really capable of driving us beneath the waves.

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"Man has become, so to speak, a god with artificial limbs."

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This book is full of surprises, Freud on #Yoga

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JWHeyman

In mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish--

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Freud the romantic.

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GoneFishing

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

Tcip Freud was a quack. I have some pent up anger towards that cat and all of my psych classes. 8y
Libby1 C.S. Lewis once wrote (I think in The Problem of Pain) that the only way to prevent suffering was to never love anything. Even loving a pet will eventually break your heart. 8y
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GoneFishing

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

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GoneFishing

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Suet624 Oh boy, ain't that the truth! 8y
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