In the book "Civilization and its Discontents ", Sigmund Freud tries to compare and differentiate the psychoanalysis to other accepted scientific disciplines. ... The main idea of "Civilization and its Discontents " is that human beings are divided in to three parts: super-ego, ego, and the Id. ... The "super-ego", according to Freud, is both individual and collective. ... This is what causes displeasure, we do not do the Id's desires because the ego will counteract certain thoughts or actions, thus we do not do ego's desires because the super-ego will then stop us from taking action...

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