MALAISE DANS LA CULTURE, LE

In Civilization and its Discontents, Freud explicates the tensions and mechanisms of living in social civilization. He posits the individual as being inherently and firstly aggressive towards other beings, an instinct that needs to be repressed in order for the individual to participate in civilization. "Civilization describes the whole sum of the achievements and the regulations which distinguish our lives from those of our animal ancestors and which serve two purposes namely to protect men (sic) against nature and to adjust their mutual relations."