Freud and the Epic Of Gilgamesh

Waking up every morning, beating the tidy sum hour, working endless hours for money and taking cargon of the family argon all arduous acts we do on a periodical basis. We do all these things not only to survive and also because they help strike happiness and help keep down pain over time. However, benignantity has exchanged a instalment of his possibilities of happiness for a ploughsh argon of protective cover (73). This sacrifice do by man for security in civilization leads to defeat because man has an instinctual sex point and (an) inclination to aggression (69). Naturally, we are people whose lives should be controlled by aggressiveness and our libido but because of the rules of society, these instinctual behaviors are subjugated. This suppression of our instinctual behaviors causes in some, a condition known as neurosis, which according to Freud causes frustrations of sexual breeding which people known as mental cases cannot tolerate (64). The psychoneurotic creates substitutive satisfactions for himself in his symptoms, and these either cause him anguish in themselves or operate sources of suffering for him by gentility difficulties in his relations with his environs and the society he belongs to (64). Gilgamesh, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, embodies the instinctual behavior acted bulge out by a neurotic as described by Freud in refining and Its Discontents because his actions are erratic and lean towards the human instinctual behavior of eff or aggressiveness as bear witness by him making love to all of Uruks women and him killing Humbaba.\nharmonize to Sigmund Freud, in the book Civilization and Discontents, a person becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the make out of frustration which society imposes on him in the service of its heathenish ideals and it (is) inferred from this that the abolition or reducing of those demands result in a return to possibilities of happiness (39). For a neurotic person to be happy th ey may open the rules set forth by society and...