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Freud says that civilizations are started to provided safety, but that they deprive us of sex and violence (and thus presumably happiness) by creating superegos which threaten us with bad feelings (e. Freud says that this means that too much civilization might not be worth it, and seems to hope that we can invent a society that give both safety and satisfaction to the desires of the id, but he thinks that this is unlikely ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. The ego, or self, deals with the external world to give the id as much pleasure as possible which simultaneously avoiding pain. How does Freud deal with the fact that people seem to want other things? Freud decided that both Eros and Thanatos give people some kind of "energy" which can be diverted (not repressed: that is something else) into other areas, giving some kind of satisfaction. creatures with strong instincts, among which is aggression, which Freud calls "an original selfsubsisting instinctual disposition in man . As a result of this idea, Freud concieves of people as having a terrible dilemma because they have two incompatiable goals: safety on the one hand, and sex and violence on the other. In Civilization and its Discontents Freuds asserts that people derive their desires from an unconscious part of their mind called the id. The ego, or self, deals with the external world to give the id as much pleasure as possible which simultaneously avoiding pain. How does Freud deal with the fact that people seem to want other things? Freud decided that both Eros and Thanatos give people some kind of "energy" which can be diverted (not repressed: that is something else) into other areas, giving some kind of satisfaction. Freud says that this means that too much civilization might not be worth it, and seems to hope that we can invent a society that give both safety and satisfaction to the desires of the id, but he thinks that this is unlikely. Freud de!cided that these desires are of two types: Eros (creative, desire for sex) and Thanatos (a desire to break/kill things). As a result of this idea, Freud concieves of people as having a terrible dilemma because they have two incompatiable goals: safety on the one hand, and sex and violence on the other.