Freud and the Epic Of Gilgamesh

wake up every morning, beat the rush hour, working fadeless hours for money and taking bid of the family are every(prenominal) arduous acts we do on a daily basis. We do all these things not only to decease but also be get along they suspensor bring blessedness and tending avoid pain all over time. However, military man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security (73). This give oneself up made by man for security in refining leads to frustration because man has an instinctual bring up drive and (an) inclination to trespass (69). Naturally, we are people whose lives should be controlled by aggressiveness and our libido but because of the rules of party, these instinctual behaviours are subjugated. This suppression of our instinctual behaviors causes in some, a condition cognise as neurosis, which according to Freud causes frustrations of familiar life which people know as neurotics cannot meet (64). The neurotic cre ates substitutive satisfactions for himself in his symptoms, and these either cause him suffering in themselves or become sources of suffering for him by raising difficulties in his dealing with his environment and the society he belongs to (64). Gilgamesh, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, embodies the instinctual behavior acted out by a neurotic as draw by Freud in politeness and Its Discontents because his actions are erratic and bend towards the human instinctual behavior of fare or aggressiveness as evidenced by him make love to all of Uruks women and him killing Humbaba.\nAccording to Sigmund Freud, in the have Civilization and Discontents, a soulfulness becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the amount of frustration which society imposes on him in the swear out of its cultural ideals and it (is) inferred from this that the abolition or reduction of those demands result in a return to possibilities of happiness (39). For a neurotic individual to be happy they may break the rules set aside by society and...