The first book I ever read in its entirety by Freud was Civilization and its Discontents. He makes his first wayward assumption when he talks about the basic instinct for man to urinate on fire, and those who could 'tame the fire inside' were the first to be able to found and form a society. A little artistic, perhaps.
What really got me was his constant references to Goethe's Faust. Why don't we read a few excerpts from a translation of it? Louis MacNeice's version does some great work with keeping the rhyme scheme and speed, even if he did take some ghastly liberties to omit.
Just a thought...
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