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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 150.1952 EAN: 9780393301588 ISBN: 0393301583 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 127 Publication Date: 1989-07 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition, focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all, doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Freudian SubtractionFreud didn't discover anything. The study of sex and aggression has been around a long, long time. What Freud 'discovered' is that there isn't anything such as Love, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Wisdom or Art. Rather than add Freud subtracted. 'Civilization and It's Discontents' documents the Freudian subtraction. Freud lopped off large parts of human nature. By and large psychoanalysis has never been of assistance to the individual qua individiual. What psychoanalysis does though is fill people with ... Read More Rating:  - Freud's PoliticsFreud gives his pessimistic take on human nature and expands this formula to society as a whole. I am not sure if his argument is sound based on the fact that he went from the micro-individual to a macro view of society, but his argument was quite convincing based upon the amounts of aggression seen throughout world history, such as constant war, greed, slavery, genocide, the inquisition, scape goats, etc. etc. If anything this book made me rethink and revise my views on society and politics as a whole. ... Read More Rating: - thxi got this book 2nd i ordered 3 at the same time. i was so happy to get it. the book arrived promptly and in good condition. Rating: - "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such." For all the celebrated shortcomings of his theories, Sigmund Freud remains, even in retrospect, the most influential thinker of the 20th century, a giant among the giants of that now by-gone era of late modernity. He still must be regarded as the most perspicuous among positivistic and systematic students of human nature and the most devoted, at least in the consistency of his ideas. His rubric for the self-referential category, "ego", is used almost universally, regardless of culture, language, or learning. ... Read More Rating: - good stuffGood stuff. A bit outdated but a must read for those who want to understand where our modern concepts of psychology begun. |
