![]() ![]() This subduing keeps his natural aggression in check, which prevents him from acting violently against others and others against him, which provides some form of happiness. ![]() The problem is that while man can’t be happy within civilization, he can’t really live without it either.Ĭivilization affords man security, according to Freud, both in the sense that he can be physically protected and that science helps him to subdue his human nature. Man, my friend Sigmund seems to believe, is in a fairly impossible position: by necessity, he lives within civilization (or maybe it would be more accurate to say that civilization surrounds him whether he likes it or not), but as far as I can tell, he doesn’t believe it’s ever possible for man to be truly happy within a civilization.
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