blindmanbaldwin 's review for:

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

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Desire for personal pleasure and a need for union. These are the two forces Freud explores in "Civilization and Its Discontents". Freud presents civilization as a repression of human pleasure to facilitate its growth (sexuality regulated to encourage reproduction). He's not necessarily wrong here, but while Freud looks at this as a neutral or a negative, I look at this as a positive. This likely comes down to differing cultural upbringings.

Interesting, for as much as its conclusions on religion (tool for social organization to create the necessary repression for civilization) are correct, the book uses Christianity as its dominant example. This makes sense given Europe, but it is a limitation of the text.