1. Theories of Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud, in his book "Civilization and Its Discontents," states that people are unhappy due to the establishment of society which creates restraints on their instinctive impulses. ... Freud believes that people are necessarily unhappy due to man's desire for security, man's ambivalence between Eros (love) and instinct of death, and the cultural super-ego's increasing demands on mankind. ... This authority, when internalized, is called super-ego, which is omniscient. ... Just as the individuals have developed the super-ego to guide them to fit into the civilization, the civ...
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