freud wrote civilization and its discontents

It also brought a smile to read his descriptions of the ways in which unhappiness can be avoided in chapter two. the ego-instinct of thatanos and that type of thing, but found a good portion of it to be thought provoking. I don’t believe all of what follows, e.g. This societal force also applies to man’s more noble instinct to love, which it restricts by creating various laws and taboos.This rub between the individual and society is the basis for the book Freud essentially says that the civilization we built to protect us and to preserve our happiness from what would otherwise be a wilderness turns out to be the prime source of our misery. Our pleasure is threatened by our own mortality and the breakdown of our body as we age, but more importantly it is threatened by civilization, which naturally must erect laws to prevent individuals from wreaking havoc by following their baser instincts of pleasure, e.g. I’m not an expert in psychology or a believer in many of Freud’s theories, but I found “Civilization and its Discontents” to be an interesting read for its ideas on history and culture.At the outset of the book, Freud states that religion is infantile, that there is no inherent meaning to life, and that what drives us is the fulfillment of the pleasure principle.

Freud wrote civilization and its discontents