Sigmund Freud, 'Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself'

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Intro/Thesis Freud, people will support laws that reflect 'thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' because they have an unconscious desire to do so (because they (or their ego) want to be loved and want their loving relationships protected),
Sigmund Freud responds to the commandment, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” recognizes the culture of individual ego and human aggression shown during the laws of society that protect the love of objects (Freud 232). Sigmund Freud stated that the only reason that people support laws is that it enable them to keep the objects of their lives close to them, it builds new love relationships, and it protects friendships with other people in the community. Some people follow this commandment because
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of social interactions. Hobbes argued that humans are naturally hostile to one another, humans depends on their own man made devices and hostile nature, leading humanity into war. Were man will be against each other (Hobbes 1906, 96). Human civilization is an effort to set up limitations for man’s aggressive instincts and to keep them from prospering towards oppression. The commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself is too justified that this is only that strongly counters the nature of man. Love only emerges through the study of loving an object can it comes into existence. Love thy neighbor as thyself is a law that encourages people to relate to others through symbolic systems such art, speech music, and even painting to symbolize love. Guilt is an unconscious power working in the mind which the consciousness does not recognize, they and cannot use to explain both feelings of anxiety, and other emotions. In order for humans to aim for happiness they must fit into society, requiring to bond with other people; to minimizing the pain, aiming for the maximum pleasure. Society has created their own super-ego which pushes that aim for happiness in the back and mainly aims for the …show more content…
Why aren't many Americans treating people as their neighbor and loving them? Why aren't they justifying their guilt? And what might this guilt be? o The concept of loving thy neighbor is becoming increasingly difficult with large influxes of immigration across Europe and the United States. Which is redefining the concept of 'neighbor' and how we treat other people. o America claims that they are the land of the free but they are deporting people and mistreat other nations. This goes back to what Freud was saying about humans seeking love or approval to justify their guilt. According to Freud, that the only path to acceptance is assimilation into the host nation? Are humans capable of loving 'thy neighbor' if they are perceived as being different? o Racism discounts the rights of different religions, nations, so they aren’t seen as human. o When nations have similar they get along but when their morals are different than they are seen as unjust, Or, perhaps when their 'morals' are perceived to be different. o Freud stated that they only love their neighbors only if it’s convenient for

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