So we can make people love their fellow man more, but then the trade off for that is they're going to have aggression towards an outside group. You can try to gratify your instinctual urges that are condemned by society, but then society will punish you, and you will punish yourself through guilt. That's also like a debt, a dead and to hapness,. he does have this very resting a, you you alluded to this before, but so the the love.
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud’s world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text “Civilization and its Discontents.” If society has made so much progress, why are human beings perpetually dissatisfied? Can religion help us or is it a big part of the problem? What’s really going on when you piss on a fire to put it out? Also: how seriously should we take Freud today given some of his wackier ideas? And is he a psychologist, a philosopher, or something else entirely?
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