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Sigmund Freud on Repression
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Freud claims that “The most important instinctual drives are sexual”. Also, “society believes that no greater threat to civilization could arise than if the sexual instincts were to be liberated” (47-8). Describing 'repression' as a process an instinctual impulse undergoes to be made inoper...

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  • August 6, 2023
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REPRESSION

, “The most important instinctual
drives are sexual”
●“Sigmund Freud (1973a) argues that the creation of
civilization has resulted in the repression of basic human
instincts”
●In order to serve the community basic instinctual
satisfaction must be sacrificed
●SATISFACTION OF THE INSTINCUAL SEXUAL
DRIVES FOR THE 'GREATER GOOD'

,●Therefore: each member of society must redirect their
instinctual drives towards “socially higher aims”
● However...there is a risk


“society believes that no greater threat to
civilization could arise than if the sexual instincts
were to be liberated” (47-8)

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