In the canon
Civilization and Its Discontents
- Form
- Form Psychology
- Year
- Year 1930
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 110
Freud sits down in 1929, with Europe already trembling toward another war, and asks the question civilization keeps refusing to hear: what does it cost us to live together at all. Not much comfort, he finds.
The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.
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