Civilization and Its Discontentes Author:Sigmund Freud The only paperbound edition of a vital document of 20th century thought. In a new translation from the German and edited by James Strachey. — "Civilization and Its Discontents" is one of the last of Freud's books, written in the decade before his death. In it he makes known his views on the broad question of man's place in the world, which he se... more »es in terms of the never-ending conflict of the claim of the individual for freedom and the demands of society.« less