Vantrivs vi i kulturen? : En idehistorisk studie av Anders Hansens bok “Depphjärnan, varför vi mår så dåligt när vi har det så bra” genom Sigmund Freuds verk “Vi vantrivs i kulturen” från 1929.

Sammanfattning: There is a self-image in today's society that we feel bad, worse than ever. An idea that man does not feel well in modern society, that she doesn't fit the culture. At the forefront of this idea, there are many different thinkers, but one that stands out in particular in our time is the psychiatrist Anders Hansen. He released a book in 2021 called "The Depressed Brain - Why we feel so bad when we have so high standards". It is a picture of man's current condition that is disseminated for the purpose of educating, changing and inspiring. It is typical of the time and it's about how we our mental health in our time and not about how it has been for the last 100 years. There is great relevance in examining such a book by an influential public figure through a historical context. For that reason, I turn in this investigation to Sigmund Freud. The psychoanalytic father who lived between 1856-1939, who went down in history as one of the most innovative thinkers, becomes very relevant in this context. Sigmund Freud released his work "Civilization and Its Discontents" in 1929 where he presented his ideas about the reasons behind man's dislike of culture. Here we have two different works that were released only 92 years apart in two different countries with almost exactly the same statement in the title itself, if you start from the Swedish or original title on German of Freud's book. The point of this essay is to bring about a deeper understanding of Hansen's book by establishing a historical context for it. I have then chosen to exemplify it through Freud.