Modern Classics Civilization and Its Discontent (Penguin Modern Classics) Freud Sigmund Bersani Leo and McLintock David

Considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. This work focuses on what the author perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers 'civilised' sexual morality.|Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century.|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. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding this proposition focusing on what he perceives to be one of society's greatest dangers; 'civilised' sexual morality. After all doesn't repression of sexuality deeply affect people and compromise their chances of happiness?