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FREUD, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur. Vienna: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1930.
8o (188 x 131 mm). Original yellow cloth (blue spine lettering a trifle rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Civilization and Its Discontents. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud on the front free endpaper: "Heern Prof. H. Schrder/mit den herzlichen [illegible] der dankbar ergebenen/Verf./1930." This is Freud's most famous study of "the two opposing forces of civilization: Eros (love), which promotes the unity of mankind, and the death instinct, which leads to aggression and destruction" (Norman). Grinstein 233; Jones III, pp. 370-373; Standard edition 1930a; Stanford 59; Norman F133.
8o (188 x 131 mm). Original yellow cloth (blue spine lettering a trifle rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of Civilization and Its Discontents. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud on the front free endpaper: "Heern Prof. H. Schrder/mit den herzlichen [illegible] der dankbar ergebenen/Verf./1930." This is Freud's most famous study of "the two opposing forces of civilization: Eros (love), which promotes the unity of mankind, and the death instinct, which leads to aggression and destruction" (Norman). Grinstein 233; Jones III, pp. 370-373; Standard edition 1930a; Stanford 59; Norman F133.