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Civilization and Its Discontents

By Sigmund Freud

Book information

Publisher
Wilder Publications
Year
2010
ISBN
9781617200762, 161720076X
Language
english
Format
RTF
Filesize
4 kB (3908 bytes)
Pages
84\0
Topic
Psychology
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life. And yet, in making any general judgement of this kind one is in danger of forgetting the manifold variety of humanity and its mental life. There are certain men from whom their contemporaries do not withhold veneration, although their greatness rests on attributes and achievements which are completely foreign to the aims and ideals of the multitude. One might well be inclined to suppose that after all it is only a minority who appreciate these great men, while the majority cares nothing for them. But the discrepancy between men's opinions and their behaviour is so wide and their desires so many-sided that things are probably not so simple.--Sigmund Freud

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