The Analitical Summary and Response to Freud's Civilization
In the eighth chapter of Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud gives a conclusion of the entire book. In the first place, Freud acknowledges that discussions on the sense of guilt disrupt the whole subject of the book. According to Freud, the sense of guilt is the most important problem for development of civilization because civilization is actually responsible for loss of happiness and this loss increases the sense of guilt. Sense of guilt places itself in consciousness easily and this dominates our lives. Also Freud claims that in some cases, sense of guilt remains unconscious. After a time interval sense of guilt can be called as “fear of super ego”. Although reason of sense of guilt is civilization, it’s perceptible as unconscious. Freud gives a brief conclusion about his terminology including “super-ego”, “conscience”, “sense of guilt” ,”need for punishment” and “remorse” in chapter 8. The super-ego is an internal voice coming from our own authority against aggression. Conscience is the force of our mind against our aggressiveness against other individuals and judges the intentions of our ego. The sense of guilt is perceived as discontent but it’s an accommodation between ego and super-ego. Need for punishme
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