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Sigmund Freud, who basically created the field of psychotherapy as we know it, asked, in his book Civilization and Its Discontents, whether it is possible for society itself to become neurotic.

From Slate • Aug. 18, 2024

Emphatically not, to judge by “American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020,” his latest anthology.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

For example, he wrote the book Hacking Life: Systemized Living and Its Discontents using the classic time-management tip of doing 50-minute chunks of work with 5- to 10-minute breaks in between.

From The Verge • Apr. 18, 2019

Ullman, the author of Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, is no luddite.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2015

When, at forty, he wrote the Thoughts on the Causes of the existing Discontents, his reason and his judgment had reached their full maturity; but his eloquence was still in its splendid dawn.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron