1930 CivilizationandItsDiscontents

Subject Headings: Societal Expectations, Social Discontent, Reality Principle, Instinct, Civilization, Conformity, Pleasure Principle (Psychology).

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It explores the tensions between civilization and the individuals, particularly individual's desire for instinctive freedom, and civilization's demand for conformity and repression of instincts.

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Discontents#Overview Retrieved:2023-6-11.
- In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud theorized the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual; his theory is grounded in the notion that humans have certain characteristic instincts that are immutable. The primary tension originates from an individual attempting to find instinctive freedom, and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and repression of instincts. Freud states that when any situation that is desired by the pleasure principle is prolonged, it creates a feeling of mild contentment as it clashes with the reality principle.
  Primitive instincts — for example, the desire to kill and the insatiable craving for sexual gratification — are harmful to the collective well-being of a human community. Laws prohibiting violence, murder, rape and adultery were developed over the course of history as a result of recognition of their harm, implementing severe punishments if their rules are broken. This process, argued Freud, is an inherent quality of civilization that gives rise to perpetual feelings of discontent among individuals, justifying neither the individual nor civilization.

(Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Discontents Retrieved:2018-2-3.
- Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud. It was written in 1929 and first published in German in 1930 as Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("The Uneasiness in Civilization"). Exploring what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology.

(Giddens, 1984) ⇒ Anthony Giddens. (1984). “The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.” Univ of California Press.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1930 CivilizationandItsDiscontents	Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)			Civilization and Its Discontents						1930