For For readers who want Freud's views on religion and happiness examined in dialogue; not for clinical or Freud scholars.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Socrates cross-examines Freud about Civilization and Its Discontents.
How it proceeds
Philosophic5 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Published by St. Augustine's Press, a volume of the Socrates Meets series. Socrates cross-examines Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, about Civilization and Its Discontents, on science, religion, happiness and the pleasure principle.