Freud's seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, i...
Freud's seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. 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. 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. 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.
A feeling can only be a source of energy if it is itself the expression of a strong need. The Derivation of religious needs from the infant's helplessness and the longing for the father aroused by it seems to me incontrovertible, especially since the feeling is not simply prolonged from childhood days, but is permanently sustained by fear or the superior power of Fate. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. (查看原文)
He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion! - Goethe, Zahme Xenien IX. (查看原文)
读的是Penguin的版本，译者David McLintock。个人和社会文明类比属实非常精彩，崇尚pleasure principle的个人被组成社会后并不会放弃primeval drive，因此同个人一样，社会文明的运作也充斥着虚伪、焦虑和不满。Essentially, you can’t “be yourself” when you are by yourself and you can’t...读的是Penguin的版本，译者David McLintock。个人和社会文明类比属实非常精彩，崇尚pleasure principle的个人被组成社会后并不会放弃primeval drive，因此同个人一样，社会文明的运作也充斥着虚伪、焦虑和不满。Essentially, you can’t “be yourself” when you are by yourself and you can’t “be yourself” when you are bound by social constructs. (展开)
0 有用 Lecia 2016-02-29 22:11:04
从很多层面上都不喜欢弗洛伊德，课业要求也没有认真读
0 有用 WinterMarvels 2021-09-09 04:22:59
Theory
0 有用 CNeverland 2017-03-28 00:25:24
感觉佛洛依德的东西像扯淡 可是又没办法证明它错
0 有用 JYYY 2023-12-21 15:19:42 江苏
宽广！
0 有用 伦琴 2013-11-10 23:54:13
BS
0 有用 朝朝 2024-01-26 04:24:06 美国
老男人keeps rambling
0 有用 JYYY 2023-12-21 15:19:42 江苏
宽广！
0 有用 半人馬的Z 2023-09-13 13:58:08 美国
補標. Freud is a great mind. This book sent me shivers back in undergrad.
0 有用 dfbn 2023-09-09 03:18:52 美国
The unanswered question looms large over the book: is there such thing as human civilization (I.e. a homogenous one).
0 有用 Kindaz 2021-09-13 16:31:47
读的是Penguin的版本，译者David McLintock。个人和社会文明类比属实非常精彩，崇尚pleasure principle的个人被组成社会后并不会放弃primeval drive，因此同个人一样，社会文明的运作也充斥着虚伪、焦虑和不满。Essentially, you can’t “be yourself” when you are by yourself and you can’t... 读的是Penguin的版本，译者David McLintock。个人和社会文明类比属实非常精彩，崇尚pleasure principle的个人被组成社会后并不会放弃primeval drive，因此同个人一样，社会文明的运作也充斥着虚伪、焦虑和不满。Essentially, you can’t “be yourself” when you are by yourself and you can’t “be yourself” when you are bound by social constructs. (展开)