Civilization and Its Discontents: The Psychological Cost of Progress and the Struggle for Human Happiness

Civilization and Its Discontents is one of the most influential and unsettling works of modern psychology.Written in 1930 by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, this timeless book explores a question that remains urgently relevant today: Why does human progress so often fail to bring happiness?Freud turns his gaze from the inner workings ...