Princeton University Press eBooks· 2018· Book chapter
Civilization and Its Discontents
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Short summary
Freud's seminal 1929 work, "Civilization and Its Discontents," offers a psychoanalytic perspective on culture, synthesizing his theories on the mind.
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Key points
- Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" was completed in the summer of 1929.
- The work summarizes Freud's psychoanalytic perspective on culture developed over decades.
- It highlights his late 'structural theory' of the mind.
- The theory stresses aggression and the death drive as fundamental adversaries to eros (the life drive).
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Abstract
During the summer of 1929, Freud worked on what became this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought. It stands as a brilliant summary of the views on culture from a psychoanalytic perspective that he had been developing since the turn of the century. It is both witness and tribute to the late theory of mind - the so-called structural theory, with its stress on aggression, indeed the death drive, as the pitiless adversary of eros.
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Field: Cultural Studies
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