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This 4 page paper evaluates this book written by Sigmund Freud. Individuality is looked at in light of civilization. No additional sources cited.
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and tame. They look inside and meditate and sing songs of peace. Civilization that lives on the periphery looks like something that prompts war and negativity. It is rigid and
cold. In reality, there seems to be a wide chasm between the world or civilization, and ones inner world. It is this subject that the well known psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
(1989) explored in his work Civilization and Its Discontents. Sigmund Freud recognized that civilization even in his time was rough on the human psyche. And who is better to know
the psychological ramifications of modernity than Freud? In the non-fiction book, the author looks at the limitations that society imposes, particularly when it comes to creativity, and mans struggle for
individuality. This is also a theme that many science fiction authors address. Does the future hold a world where people are all the same? The reason why science fiction writers
choose this is likely because there is much fodder in respect to this idea; the world indeed seems to be headed in such a direction. Today, schools are notorious for
trying to make cookie cutter kids from the meld of children they teach. If a child does not conform, he is "classified." Some are put on drugs so that they
will be more placid. While it may sound like the work of science fiction, the reality is that the problem of labeling and drugging children in the world is growing.
Of course, Freud wrote in a pre-Ritalin world. Still, the same ideas have been around for quite awhile. Society in a general sense makes rules. Children begin their lives under
parental control, who by a host of doctors are told to do such and such. Little is left to instinct as Dr. Spock and Dr. Dobson guide them, and sometimes
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