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Civilization and its discontents

by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

10 chapters, about 29,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. I 3,400 words
3. II 4,200 words
4. III 4,600 words
5. IV 2,200 words
6. FOOTNOTES: 600 words
7. V 3,000 words
8. VI 1,900 words
9. VII 3,900 words
10. VIII 4,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Beauty
• Civilization
• Eros (concept)
• Guilt (emotion)
• Guilt (law)
• Sublimation (psychology)
• Taboo
• Unconscious mind

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