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In <i>[[The Future of an Illusion]]</i> [[Freud]] provided a more extended definition of [[civilization]]:
<blockquote>"Human civilization, by which I mean all those respects in which human life has raised itself above its animal status and differs from the life of the beasts—and I scorn to distinguish between culture and civilization—presents, as we know, two aspects to the observer. It includes, on the one hand, all the knowledge and capacity that men have acquired in order to control the forces of nature and extract its wealth for the satisfaction of human needs and, on the other hand, all the regulations necessary in order to adjust the relations of men to one another and especially the distribution of the available wealth."<ref>1927c, p. 5-6</ref></blockquote>
Civilization appears as an entity in and of itself, a given for the subject on whom it is imposed:
<blockquote>"The development of civilization appears to us as a peculiar process which mankind undergoes, and in which several things strike us as familiar. We may characterize this process with reference to the changes which it brings about in the familiar instinctual dispositions of human beings, to satisfy which is, after all, the economic task of our lives."<ref>Freud, 1930a, p. 96</ref></blockquote>
As Freud pointed out in "Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness" (1908d), civilization, by imposing sexual frustration, has a direct effect on the genesis of neuroses.
