Spine browned with slight wear, light nicks to edges, contents clean. Original yellow wrappers printed in brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Ernest Jones, Sigmund Freud: Life and Work, vol. Discontent was an inevitable aspect of civilization because, even though Oedipal aggression had been repressed, the wish had not and the wish had the same power to produce guilt that the act did' (DSB, vol.

This repression was institutionalized in social justice. Aggression against the father was repressed by the incorporated parental image, the superego. Analysing the conflict between an individual's instinctive needs and the constraints and demands of society, the book 'emphasized the continuance of hostile impulses within developed societies. The first translation into English was published later that year by the Hogarth Press. In this study, Freud 'gave the fullest account of his views in the field of sociology, one which, as he said elsewhere, 'can be nothing other than applied psychology'' (Jones, p. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.įirst edition, first printing, wrappers issue. Some separation to rear wrapper with archival tape securing upper third. Most notable are the desires for sex, and the predisposition to violent aggression towards authoritative figures and towards sexual competitors.CONDITION: An untrimmed copy in the original yellow publisher s printed wrappers. This theory is based on the idea that humans have certain characteristic instincts that are immutable. This process, argues Freud, is an inherent process of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements severe punishments if such commandments are broken. Many of humankind's primitive instincts are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community.

The primary friction arises from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. In this seminal book, Freud enumerates his understanding of the fundamental tensions that exist between civilization and the individual. One of Freud s most intensely studied and influential books, Civilization and Its Discontents, takes the foundational principles of psychoanalysis and applies them to man and his place in society. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Wien, 1930. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents).

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