Freud, S. (1930). Civilization and its Discontents.

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Freud, S. (1930). Civilization and its Discontents. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XXI (1927-1931): The Future of an Illusion, Civilization and its Discontents, and Other Works, 57-146

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Editor's Introduction to "Civilization and its Discontents"


James Strachey

(a) German Editions:

1930 Das Unbehagen in Der Kultur Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag. Pp. 136.

2nd ed. (Reprint of 1st ed., with some additions.)

1934 Das Unbehagen in Der Kultur G.S., 12, 29-114.

1948 Das Unbehagen in Der Kultur G.W., 14, 421-506.

(b) English Translation:

Civilization and its Discontents 1930 London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. New York: Cape and Smith. Pp. 144. (Tr. Joan Riviere.)

The present translation is based on that published in 1930.

The first chapter of the German original was published slightly in advance of the rest of the book in Psychoanal. Bewegung, 1 (4), November-December, 1929. The fifth chapter appeared separately in the next issue of the same periodical, 2 (1), January-February, 1930. Two or three extra footnotes were included in

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