Freud&s epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are forming the foundation for psychoanalysis In Civilization & its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization & individual happiness Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society&s greatest dangers; &civilized& sexual morality he asks does repression compromise our chances of happinesssigmund Freud was born in 1856 & died in exile in London in 1939 As a writer & doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century