André Oliveira Costa is psychoanalyst, member of the Norbert Elias Foundation and the Psychoanalytic Association of Porto Alegre (APPOA), Brazil.

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process, conducting a dialogue between the thought of Freud and Elias with a view to analysing points of contact and distance between them, as well as shedding light on the dynamics that exist between individuals and social processes.

1 - The Court and the Civilization

2 - The Dynamics of the Civilizing Process

3 - Logic of Exclusion: The Established and the Outsiders

4 - Continuities and Discontinuities of the Civilizing Process

5 - The Decivilizing Process and the Destinies of Civilization

6 - Beyond the Civilizing Process

7 - Freud's Moses: A Historical Novel

8 - Norbert Elias, Beyond Sigmund Freud