Search Results: das unbehagen in der kultur civilization by freud sigmund

Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good in wrappers. First Edition, German, 1930. An untrimmed copy in the original yellow publisher's printed wrappers. Spine carefully and unobtrusively repaired with tape; binding is about three quarters separated from covers. Chipping along the edges and a small piece missing from bottom of the spine closed tear at rear cover. A rare copy of a very important work.

Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag,, 1930. First edition. Very Good +. FREUD, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents). Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Wien, 1930. Half-title + TP + [5]-136. Octavo. First Edition. One of Freud’s most intensely studied and influential books, Civilization and Its Discontents, takes the foundational principles of psychoanalysis and applies them to man and his place in society. In this seminal book, Freud enumerates his understanding of the fundamental tensions that exist between civilization and the individual. The primary friction arises from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements… Read More

Wien [= Vienna]: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], 6-136 pp. Yellow cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine; blue topstain. Text in German. Grinstein 10619. Haskell-Norman 1373. Freud's treatise on how the principles of psychoanalysis can be applied to industrialized societies. One of Freud's most significant works, a sharp examination of the demands of civilized society pitted humankind's innate desires and instincts. The Norman entry cites a special focus on the Eros instinct and on what the auction cataloger refers to as "the death instinct" Rubbing to the lettering on the front board, a bookplate on the free front endpaper.

Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag,, 1930. First edition, first printing, cloth issue. In this study, Freud "gave the fullest account of his views in the field of sociology, one which, as he said elsewhere, 'can be nothing other than applied psychology'" (Jones, p. 364). The first translation into English was published later that year by the Hogarth Press. Analysing the conflict between an individual's instinctive needs and the constraints and demands of society, the book "emphasized the continuance of hostile impulses within developed societies... Aggression against the father was repressed by the incorporated parental image, the superego. This repression was institutionalized in social justice. Discontent was an inevitable aspect of civilization because, even though Oedipal aggression had been repressed, the wish had not; and the wish had the same power to produce guilt that the act did" (DSB, vol. 5, p. 178). Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front board lettered in blue.… Read More