![]() ![]() Freud's ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but have also influenced the entire intellectual climate of the last century. Freud demonstrated the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an investigation of the workings of the mind in general, both ill or healthy. He was almost thirty when his interests first turned to psychology, and during ten years of clinical work in Vienna he developed the practice of what he called ""psychoanalysis"". 'Civilization and Its Discontents' discusses the very dilemna of humanity's persistent emptiness and seemingly futile attempts to become an 'enlightened' race and proposes the idea that the answer may very well lie in a simplistic new perception of where we come from and where we are going. ![]() He began his career as a doctor, specialising in work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. ![]() ![]() He was then forced to seek asylum in London, where he died the following year. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers. Civilization and Its Discontents Paperback Shop Now Summary 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. Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia from 1860 until Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938 he lived in Vienna. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 9780141018997, available at Book. ![]()
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