With the development of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud increasingly turned to cultural studies, applying a psychoanalytic approach to the problems of culture and human psychology in its context. This collection includes Freud's main works on cultural psychology - among other things, the work “The Future of an Illusion”, dedicated to the fate of religion in the modern world; programmatic treatise “Rejection of Culture”, where Freud talks about the inescapable conflict between man and civilization, which forces any member of society to work and suppress natural instincts - sexual and destructive; The Man Called Moses and Monotheism is the fruit of Freud's long-standing interest in the personality and myth of the prophet Moses as a central figure in Jewish and Christian mythology; an open letter to Albert Einstein on the nature of war; and other works devoted to the dynamic relationship between culture and its carriers. Some works in this collection are published in a new translation.