Civilization and Its Discontents

This version of Sigmund Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents' has been custom formatted for digital devices, checked for typos, and includes an interactive table of contents. In this seminal work, Freud explicates the basic tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction stems from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom versus civilization's inverse demand for conformity and instinctual repression. This dynamic tension, argues Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that instills perpetual feelings of discontent in its citizens.