BF199 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Death Drive, Scapegoating, Scantron Corporation
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Its role is to keep us on the strait and narrow. It controls people"s wills and prevents the will of the individual form taking over the will of someone else. Society controls our wills, especially the individual who wants to overpower others. Society is the united front of the group against the will of any one individual. Sincerely believes that no amount of reason or critical thinking will take deep destructive desires away form us. The best thing they could do is even them out a little bit. Maybe turn the dark impulses into something desirable. Most profound point: we all want to be happy and have pleasure but if we believe happiness is a state in which we are normal, we have confused the issue. Normal state is what we do normally. idea of being happiness is rising above the normal.