We are a reflection of our culture
This essay is intended to publicize the relevant information about one of the most famous works of the Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, which was published in 1930 and is called “The discomfort in culture”. In Freud reading refers to the irremediable antagonism between the pulsional demands of the human being, since he seeks first of all the sexual satisfaction and the restrictions imposed by the culture in which we develop, all this will influence behavior and structure Psychic of a person, because culture is the one that determines some limitations, since it has some influence by society, therefore there is talk of a dissatisfaction of man by culture, which is due to the fact that it controls those erotic and aggressive impulses , since man has an it where primitive instincts and innate aggressiveness are found that can disintegrate a society, for this culture is responsible for controlling this aggressiveness through what is allowed and what is not , placing all human beings in a world governed by moral.
It should be noted that another of the important points of the work is the issue of religion, because Freud through its analysis defines it as an illusion, since it goes through an ideological issue in which it influences and analyzes that so much can reachTo affect that ideology to the human being, it refers that believers believe they live a feeling of "eternity", a feeling of something without limits or barriers, in some way "oceanic" where the it is analyzed, me and super me, this being this beingThe entity of religion and that thanks to this oceanic feeling a human being could be considered religious, although he rejects all faith and all illusion.
In "the discomfort in culture" it refers that one of the problems of the human being comes from common feelings or daily shared sensations, thus emerging an oceanic feeling that man makes a more religious being there is that whether or not he believes in any creed, and this feeling is interpreted as a sense of communion with the whole, an inseparable belonging to the entire outside world, this feeling embarks the analysis of the self, being the primary source of human religion, it manifests itself in the subject as perceptionthat the borders between the self and the world in which it is diluted for a moment.
This solution allows the individual to capture the world as an organic, interdependent and beautiful totality in itself. Personal problems become and for a few moments our body is filled with beatific pleasure (Lozano, 2004). It is common for man to try to satisfy his impulses dodging the obstacles of the outside world, either through sublimation, resorting to illusions or images, as in art. Actually, culture has to do so that the rules and norms governed by morals are imposed, which makes man repress those drives that he feels, therefore, the discomfort between culture and the free development of thesexuality is influenced by an aggressive component of sexual drive that has become autonomous, because culture defines what can be done and what does not. This leads to a principle of reality that is imposed before the pleasure principle and this generates suffering that attempts to be solved by religion, who proposes a devaluation of earthly life and a voluntary renunciation or inhibition of drives falling into a discomfort (Freud, 1984).
Culture through society proposes the repression of the absolute and unbridled pulsional enjoyment, through the imposition of new limits to pleasure, referring that culture instead of being coercive is protective, allows usThey allow us to group. Culture may not allow us to be happy, but if it allows us to survive along with others, through the reduction of aggressive and death drives to allow erotic and life drives to manifest, having as its main tool the super toolI (Eduverry, 1961). The progress of culture lies in the loss of happiness due to increased feeling of guilt, so the need for punishment is a return of masochism on the self under the influence of the sadistic superego, this can be manifested in the way in which the regionIt has weight in society, because it comes only to child homelessness and the nostalgia of the father;His representations are comfort and illusions, corresponding to his wishes, because it is incontrovertible that man wants to be happy.
Based on the information reviewed in the text, it can be concluded that each of us is a reflection of our culture, "the discomfort in culture" speaks of many things that have been presented from 1930 to the present, I accept the idea thatHuman happiness is subjective and governed by culture, because it is true that all human beings use masks, which allow us to interact with others, because we will never be as we really are, for this acompletely intimate repertoire, which is not going to be expressed with others, and that repertoire is limited to all the norms and rules that society marks and of what is not allowed, and in it the happiness is reflected, through thoseMorality rules imposed by culture.
A basic element of discomfort is love, since this is the center of psychoanalytic experience, but for psychoanalysis love does not exist, it is nothing more than the complement and satisfaction of a sexual drive, the human being is in search of objects for objects forthus complete and have sexual satisfaction. The feeling of guilt, in my opinion I do consider that it is related to the people who approach religion most because they are the ones who have the most feelings of guilt, and when they go to a religious ceremony they try to purify themselves and wash all theirYou blame, so that leaving there they return to those feelings and make the same behaviors again, and so they can feel in balance, resorting to an omnipotent god who releases all those faults so that people do not feel bad about society.
Religion keeps us constantly submitted to the rules and rules marked, as in the 10 Catholic commandments, presenting the limbs of guilt and moral. However "discomfort in culture" has many things that are true, because in todayFreud not only shows the world of repression in which we live, he also manifests the impulses and desires of people who are repressed to avoid being considered immoral. Finally, it is important to say that man cannot cease to be what he is: a struggle perpetuates against the difficulty of existing both in nature and culture.
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