Theorists have interpreted the book over the years. Texts that explore the various ways that artists, philosophers, and social Moyn offers a new introduction, helpful notations, and a selection of short We now have an opportunity to do so for our ownĬatastrophe-stricken world: In a new edition from Norton, the historian Samuel “is mingled too strongly with mourning for one had loved the prison from whichīecame an instant classic, and over the decades, a wide range of readers-from MarxistsĪnd feminists to Christian conservatives-have debated Freud’s lessons for “The triumphant feeling of liberation,” he wrote in a letter from exile, Home country of Austria, evoked mixed feelings. Even his hair-raising escape from the Nazis, who in 1938 occupied Freud’s Social web, from safety to a sense of belonging, always comes at the price of That life in society is destined to be tragic: Whatever people gain from their DiscussingĮverything from religion to technology to bodily odors, he provocatively concluded (1930), Freud’s most all-encompassing reflection on social matters. While simultaneously criticizing it as “baseless fanaticism.” Few worksĮmbodied this ambivalence better than Civilization and Its Discontents Supported Zionism (even serving on the founding board of the Hebrew University) The inequality of wealth” was necessary), only to reject it elsewhere as antithetical to human nature. Tasted the miseries of poverty,” he wrote, can understand why fighting “against He often heldĬonflicting views of political ideologies: For example, he expressed sympathies Freud was an ambivalent man, especially when it came to politics.
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