Freud and the Epic Of Gilgamesh

Waking up both morning, beating the rush hour, workings endless hours for money and fetching care of the family are alone arduous acts we do on a daily basis. We do wholly these things not only to survive but in any case because they help bring pleasure and help avoid pain sensation over time. However, reality has interchange a portion of his possibilities of enjoyment for a portion of security measure (73). This sacrifice made by man for security in civilization leads to frustration because man has an instinctual sex drive and (an) intention to aggression (69). Naturally, we are commonwealth whose lives should be controlled by belligerency and our libido but because of the rules of confederacy, these instinctual behaviours are subjugated. This curtailment of our instinctual behaviors causes in some, a status known as neurosis, which correspond to Freud causes frustrations of sexual life which spate known as mental cases cannot continue (64). The neurotic creates substitutive satisfactions for himself in his symptoms, and these every cause him anguish in themselves or become sources of suffering for him by raising difficulties in his relations with his environment and the orderliness he belongs to (64). Gilgamesh, in The heroic of Gilgamesh, embodies the instinctual behavior acted out by a neurotic as described by Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents because his actions are bizarre and lean towards the human instinctual behavior of love or hostility 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 abolishment or reduction of those demands assembletlement in a fall down to possibilities of happiness (39). For a neurotic person to be bright they may break the rules set forth by society and...