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Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents': A Reader's Guide

Freud's 'Civilization and Its Discontents': A Reader's Guide

Bloechl, Jeffrey

Paperback

Series: Reader's Guides

Philosophy

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2027

ISBN10: 1350429279
ISBN13: 9781350429277
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Oct 28 2027
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

A clear, penetrating, and philosophically rich companion to Civilization and Its Discontents, this reader's guide is a path through one of Freud's most provocative and enduring works.

Designed for students, scholars, and thoughtful readers across the humanities, it illuminates the intellectual landscape in which Freud wrote, the clinical insights that shaped his ideas, and the conceptual tensions that animate his late social theory. Unpacking the central difficulties of reading Civilization and Its Discontents, Jeffrey Bloechl takes readers through Freud's evolving vocabulary, the complex afterlife of his earlier theories, and the challenge of tracing arguments that span psychology, anthropology, religion, and moral philosophy. Through chapter-by-chapter commentary, this guide clarifies Freud's claims about the pleasure and reality principles, the psychic cost of social life, the formation of the super-ego, and the emergence of the death drive - all while weaving in helpful comparisons to thinkers such as Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Marx.

Far from offering a single correct reading, Bloechl invites readers into an open, critical engagement with Freud's thought. Ultimately, this book equips its readers to grapple with Freud's unsettling diagnosis of modern life - its suffering, its moral demands, and its inescapable malaise - while opening new paths for reflection in philosophy, theology, and psychoanalytic theory.

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