In Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud turned his psychoanalytic attention from the troubles of the individual to those of the world. The book, joining the US public domain in 16 days in both German and English, diagnoses inherent conflicts between individual drives for happiness and society’s needs to tame those drives for survival. Kristin Dorsey suggests ways to read Freud’s work in the context of its time, and in dialogue with works on similar questions. #PublicDomainDayCountdown