Civilization and its discontents.BF173 2004-027112 0-393-05995-2 Civilization civilization, culture with a relatively high degree of elaboration and technical development. The term civilization also designates that complex of cultural elements that first appeared in human history between 8,000 and 6,000 years ago. and its discontents. Freud, Sigmund Freud, Sigmund (froid), 1856–1939, Austrian psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis. Born in Moravia, he lived most of his life in Vienna, receiving his medical degree from the Univ. of Vienna in 1881. . Trans. by James Strachey James Beaumont Strachey (1887 – 1967) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English. He was a son of Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey & Lady (Jane) Strachey; called the enfant miracle . Intro. by Louis Menand. W.W. Norton, [c]2005 192 p. $19.95 **** A previous edition of this book is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.. Editor Louis Menand (English and American literature American literature, literature in English produced in what is now the United States of America. Colonial Literature American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in , Harvard U.) says that this classic, like many others, no longer has any credibility as an account of reality, but has so widely influenced people that thinking about reality without taking it into account is now impossible. Ungehagen in der Kultur was published in 1930, nine years before Freud died, and reflects the shift late in his career from problems of the individual to problems of culture. |
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