Zachary Davis: That’s Elizabeth Lunbeck, a professor in the History of Science at Harvard University. And civilization with its laws and mores prevents us from gratifying that aggressiveness. We delight in exercising our aggression, in killing one another and hurting other people, in promoting our own superiority. For Sigmund Freud, the famous psychoanalyst of the 19th and 20th centuries, civilization was a problem.Įlizabeth Lunbeck: The sort of foundational idea that Freud gets to is that we are at base very aggressive creatures. There are a lot of positive aspects to this way of life: laws keep people safe, political systems give the world order, and cultural identities bind us together.īut civilization has its downsides. Whether we live in the city or the country, we all live in civilizations. Zachary Davis: No individual is an island.
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