Freud and the Epic Of Gilgamesh

Waking up every morning, beating the rush hour, works endless hours for money and pickings care of the family are altogether arduous acts we do on a daily basis. We do completely these things not however to survive but likewise because they help bring comfort and help avoid disorder over time. However, valet has change a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of gage (73). This sacrifice made by man for security in civilization leads to thwarting because man has an instinctual sex drive and (an) inclining to aggression (69). Naturally, we are wad whose lives should be controlled by belligerency and our libido but because of the rules of association, these instinctual carriages are subjugated. This crushing of our instinctual behaviors causes in some, a tally known as neurosis, which correspond to Freud causes frustrations of sexual life which plurality known as neurotics cannot meet (64). The neurotic creates substitutive satisfactions for himself in his symptoms, and these any cause him low-down in themselves or become sources of suffering for him by raising difficulties in his relations with his environment and the high society he belongs to (64). Gilgamesh, in The epos of Gilgamesh, embodies the instinctual behavior acted out by a neurotic as described by Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents because his actions are moody and lean towards the human instinctual behavior of love or aggressiveness as evidenced by him making love to all of Uruks women and him killing Humbaba.\nAccording to Sigmund Freud, in the book Civilization and Discontents, a person becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the amount of frustration which society imposes on him in the service of its cultural ideals and it (is) inferred from this that the abolition or reduction of those demands solution in a happen to possibilities of happiness (39). For a neurotic person to be halcyon they may break the rules dress out forth by society and...