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Civilization and Its Discontents

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Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Written within the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents is also his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. At the start published in 1930, it seeks to reply to a few questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization’s trajectory? Freud’s theories at the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Of the more than a few English translations of Freud’s major works to appear in his lifetime, only Norton’s Standard Edition, under the general editorship of James Strachey, was once authorized by Freud himself. This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and creator Christopher Hitchens in addition to Peter Gay’s classic biographical note on Freud.

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