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Frued

1. Freud defines three stages of sexuality, the oral, the anal and the oedipal stage. An infant in its
                                            oral stage learns that there is an external world through pleasure and pain. Human nature is
                                            governed by the pleasure principle. When the infant is being breast fed he/she feels pleasure and
                                            when pulled away from the breast the baby feels pain. The pleasure principle is a way of seeking
                                            pleasure in order to avoid pain. We can’t be happy all the time because three things threaten us.
                                            First of all our own bodies can’t handle too much pleasure at once, eventually our bodies get older
                                            and death is inevitable. Second, natural phenomenon’s get in our way, and third our relationships
                                            with others. We are emotionally dependent on others and when we take their words into
                                            consideration we become unhappy. Since we can’t be happy all the time we need to learn how to
                                            avoid pain. There are five ways we can avoid pain. We can become hedonistic and gain pleasure at
                                            all costs all the time. This way of avoiding pain isn’t really possible due to the fact that we
                                            wouldn’t be able to accomplish anything else in our lives. Second way of avoiding pain is by
                                            voluntary isolation. A person can take him/herself out of society and become a hermit. They do not
                                            deal with people on an emotional or personal level. The third way of avoiding pain is turning away
                                            from the world, the libidinal energy is turned inward and used up by them when they create art and
                                            literature. Forth is by working in groups and forming memberships. Groups are formed for
                                            protection against brute force and have allowed us to conquer nature. The fifth way is by
                                            influencing the organism. The individual wants to kill off all instincts and does this either by using
                                            drugs and alcohol, or using eastern techniques such as yoga. Freud said that another basic way to
                                            avoid pain is love. Sexual love is the most intense form of feeling pleasure. All forms of pleasure
                                            are related to sexual love. The sublimation of love can be between brother and sister and also can
                                            exist between friends. Along with love comes the appreciation of beauty and it is related to the
                                            sexual feeling that is part of our libido. Civilization can not do without beauty even though
                                            everyone has his or her own interpretation of what is considered beautiful. Freud describes the
                                            origin of civilization through four different time periods. First in Time A, which is the time of the
                                            primal male, the male is brutish, ape-like and is governed by the pleasure principle. The male needs
                                            to gain genital pleasure no matter the consequences so he begins to associate pleasure with one
                                            woman. The male wants to keep this woman close to him and therefore he also has to keep their
                                            children. The woman stays with him for the protection he provides for her and the children. Only
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