These days I've been thinking about one of Freud's theories, the instincts theory and specially the destructive instinct. He says that humans have a natural destructive instinct, an energy or force that forces us to destroy, to dissolve, to damage...
It justifies sadism or masochism as also our tendence to the wars. As we have the need to join with other people, to love, to feel loved etc. We have the need to do the opposite. Culture've repressed these instincts by sublimation (and other methods). At the destructive instinct, we canalize them by games and sport, and also by using it into ourselves, making us like we feel that we should be (respectfull, without robbing or killing, honest...).
Then, "thanks" to this repression we have an omniscient "policeman" in our minds, and he will ever repress some canalizations of the wishes that we know that we musn't satisfy. I mean, if we wants to kill our father or to robe a poor man, we'll feel an "energy" that repress this wish, and we won't satisfy it directly. Instead of kill our father or robe a poor man, we'll kill a monster in a videogame or to take the football ball from the opposite team. Culture's created this energy, and I think that it won't change.
It's good to have this policeman, or it just takes happiness from us?
It justifies sadism or masochism as also our tendence to the wars. As we have the need to join with other people, to love, to feel loved etc. We have the need to do the opposite. Culture've repressed these instincts by sublimation (and other methods). At the destructive instinct, we canalize them by games and sport, and also by using it into ourselves, making us like we feel that we should be (respectfull, without robbing or killing, honest...).
Then, "thanks" to this repression we have an omniscient "policeman" in our minds, and he will ever repress some canalizations of the wishes that we know that we musn't satisfy. I mean, if we wants to kill our father or to robe a poor man, we'll feel an "energy" that repress this wish, and we won't satisfy it directly. Instead of kill our father or robe a poor man, we'll kill a monster in a videogame or to take the football ball from the opposite team. Culture's created this energy, and I think that it won't change.
It's good to have this policeman, or it just takes happiness from us?
