This line must be maintained in order to protect the individual from the pain and suffering associated with the world in general. Most of the time the ego, or the rational and intellectual part of the mind, maintains a clear line between the individual and the outside world. While fully accepting that such feeling exist within individuals, he attributes them to a person's ego interacting with the outside world. In his analysis of civilization and why so many of its members are unhappy, Freud begins with what many consider a feeling of happiness, what he calls the "oceanic" feeling many associate with religious faith. By repressing their natural urges, humans are civilized, but live in a continual state of discontent. But in doing so, humans have also created the source of their unhappiness they are no longer allowed to act in a manner that is instinctually natural.
To repress these naturally occurring human instincts and create an orderly society, humans have turned to civilization. People have an instinctual desire for absolute freedom which includes a need to be sexually promiscuous as well as to be violent.
In his book Civilization and its Discontents, Freud asserts the happiness of the individual is often sublimated to the need for civilization to establish law and order.
Humankind strives for happiness, but according to Sigmund Freud, the creation of civilization as a means to further this goal has instead generated unhappiness.
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