SOCPSY 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Anti-Intellectualism, Human Nature, Avail
13 Mar 2018
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Demands made by civilization upon humans in relation to the degree of satisfaction of instinctual demands that are allowed. The human capacity for aggression in relation to civilization. Every civilization must be built up on coercion and the renunciation of instinct, and again he refers to the destructive, anti-social, and anti-cultural trends in human beings. Freud does not have a flattering view of the masses whom he sees as lazy and unintelligent and do not kindly take to curbs on their instinctual demands. Freud is skeptical of those who argue that people raised by kinder and gentle forms of upbringing can produce a culture of civilized people who accept the instinctual renunciation required. Coercion will always be necessary and will lead to conflict. Humans are built to be aggressive to some extent, no matter how they are raised and socialized.
