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Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents (2010, W. W. Norton) 4 stars

Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It …

Review of 'Civilization and Its Discontents' on Goodreads

3 stars

Not much for answers, a smattering of cautious and cautionary analysis. Freud definitely comes around to the view that humanity has a destructive instinct at heart, tempered in society by self-guilt. "[T]he sense of guilt as the most important problem in the development of civilization [...] the price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt."