![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and writer Christopher Hitchens as well as Peter Gay’s classic biographical note on Freud. Of the various 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 authorized by Freud himself. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several 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 on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. ![]() ![]() Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. ![]()
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