Annotated Bibliography 2
The scholarly, peer-reviewed article "Human Chances for Happiness: A Review of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents" was written by Donald Capps and Nathan Carlin and was published in Volume 62, Issue 3, of the journal Pastoral Psychology in April 2012. I accessed the article through the University of West Florida library’s online database. In order to find the article on the UWF library’s website, go to the “Academic OneFile” database under “A-Z Database List.” To search for this article, enter the name of the article in the database’s search box. The intended audience for this article is the general population of the United States who agree that sustained happiness is difficult to recognize, or who are unsure …show more content…
Capps and Carlin believe prioritizing the reduction of suffering over the desire for basic happiness contributes to the “voluntary isolation” of one’s self (Capps and Carlin 276). The article provides an observation analysis of Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. The authors continue to address the issue of the reduction of suffering over an individual’s desire for basic happiness by examining Freud’s seven chapters of Civilization and Its Discontents. The authors argue the reduction of suffering often is absolved through self destructing methods including but not limited to voluntary isolation, intoxication, aside from illusion and delusion. Subsequently, these methods of reduction further obstruct upon one’s path to basic happiness. Capps and Carlin conclude the article by stating that while Freud conveys an “expansive view” of happiness, he claims happiness entails the limitation of ones needs (Capps and Carlin 286). Capps and Carlin urge the audience to become involved in maintaining their own basic happiness aside its evident fleeting tendencies by exercising Freud’s analysis of basic
The scholarly, peer-reviewed article "Human Chances for Happiness: A Review of Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents" was written by Donald Capps and Nathan Carlin and was published in Volume 62, Issue 3, of the journal Pastoral Psychology in April 2012. I accessed the article through the University of West Florida library’s online database. In order to find the article on the UWF library’s website, go to the “Academic OneFile” database under “A-Z Database List.” To search for this article, enter the name of the article in the database’s search box. The intended audience for this article is the general population of the United States who agree that sustained happiness is difficult to recognize, or who are unsure …show more content…
Capps and Carlin believe prioritizing the reduction of suffering over the desire for basic happiness contributes to the “voluntary isolation” of one’s self (Capps and Carlin 276). The article provides an observation analysis of Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. The authors continue to address the issue of the reduction of suffering over an individual’s desire for basic happiness by examining Freud’s seven chapters of Civilization and Its Discontents. The authors argue the reduction of suffering often is absolved through self destructing methods including but not limited to voluntary isolation, intoxication, aside from illusion and delusion. Subsequently, these methods of reduction further obstruct upon one’s path to basic happiness. Capps and Carlin conclude the article by stating that while Freud conveys an “expansive view” of happiness, he claims happiness entails the limitation of ones needs (Capps and Carlin 286). Capps and Carlin urge the audience to become involved in maintaining their own basic happiness aside its evident fleeting tendencies by exercising Freud’s analysis of basic