TY - JOUR A1 - Antunes Lima, Maria Elizabeth T1 - The role and the meaning of work in Freud's cultural writings JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 21 (No. 1, 2012), pp. 003-016. N2 - The purpose of this essay is to consider the role and the meaning attributed to the concept of >work< by an analysis of Freud's cultural writings. It concludes that there are important deficiencies in Freudian theorization about this topic which have led to the naturalization of man and society and, as a result, to an ahistorical view of social processes. These deficiencies have been frequently pointed out in the criticism made of Freud's work. Y1 - 2012 ER -