According to Sigmund Freud in his Civilization and Its Discontents, why does civilization inevitably cause unhappiness, how do humans try to achieve happiness or avoid suffering, and why are they not successful? What are the implications of Freud’s theories for the potential of systems such as democracy, socialism, nationalism, fascism, capitalism, and libertarianism for ending unhappiness?

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Sigmund Freud 1856 to 1939 was the founding father of psychoanalysis a method for treating mental illness and also a theory that explains human behavior Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamenta... View the full answer