Freud Museum Reading Group – Civilisation and its Discontents

Tue 20 Oct · 17:30 · Online

Hosted by Freud Museum London

£264.09 · concessions available

Civilisation and its Discontents has remained one of Freud’s best loved and most widely read works ever since its publication in 1930. Taking as its theme, the relationship between the ‘progress’ of civilisation and an increase in human unhappiness, Freud’s brilliantly unpacks how technological and cultural advances are in fact productive of anxiety and tension for the individual. Freud’s wide-ranging analysis leads to the most sustained application of drive theory, encompassing Eros and the death drive, that appears in his work.

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