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8 pages in length. The writer compares/contrasts Marx and Freud approaches to philosophy, civilization and human existence. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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entrenched within the human species. Indeed, anyone harboring only marginal good will toward humanity and civilization could well lose it through reading Civilization and Its Discontents. According to
Freud, there is little good in the world that arises naturally and without coercion of one form or another, of one person to another. Mans existence is rooted in
aggression, and all individual concepts he had originated through his study of the mind Freud found he could apply to social theory. Ascribing guilt to nearly every concept he
defined through case studies and the process of refining his theories of personality, so he applied the same concepts to civilization as a whole. After all, what is civilization
but a collection of individuals attempting to coexist? For Freud, the extrapolation of concepts derived for the individual is wholly right and fair for application to society overall.
Why, he wonders, "do our relatives, the animals, not exhibit any such cultural struggle? We do not know" (Freud 69). Freud maintains
it is necessary to have laws to contain aggression, that without those laws anarchy would be the rule of the day and there would be no hope of redemption or
change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primary motivation in his life and not a secondary rationalization of instinctual drives" (Frankl 121).
The "eye for an eye" mentality fits better the realm of human reality than does the commandment to love a neighbor as yourself. Freud is adamant that property
and aggression have little to connect them aside from property being a scapegoat means to yield to the aggression that is so natural for us. He further points to
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