Civilization and its Discontents

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The Standard Edition of Sigmund Freud’s most famous work, under the general editorship of James Strachey and authorized by Freud. Editorial matter by Samuel Moyn. Carefully chosen and thematically organized commentaries, including letters between Albert Einstein and Freud and a new essay by Amy Allen adapted for this Norton Critical Edition. Topics include “The Meaning of Psychoanalysis,” “The Infant, the ‘Oceanic Feeling,’ and the Question of Religion,” “Aggression and Peace,” “Culture and Pessimism in Cold War Liberalism,” and “Liberation or Progress?” Suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and an author index, and a general index. About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part