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The Notion of the Work of Culture in Freud's Writings

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With a special interest in the modality of the different links between both psychic and sociocultural realities, our scientific interest led us to encounter the notion of the work of culture in Freud's writings. It seemed relevant to us to question more particularly its operative value in the link we were seeking.

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  1. Simultaneously working with the French translation under the general editorship of Jean Laplanche, we nevertheless chose to refer in this text only to the English translation under the general editorship of J. Strachey.

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Smadja, E. The Notion of the Work of Culture in Freud's Writings. Psychoanal Cult Soc 13, 188–198 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2008.1

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