The source of alienation and discontent has been argued by may people, two major people being Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. Marx believed that the source of man’s alienation came from society, specifically the economy/state, but Freud argued that discontentment came from a more personal place, on more of a physiological level. Marx’s solution was to abolish private property, eliminating peoples’ feelings of not seeing their work pay off. Freud’s method to get rid of discontentment was for people to attend therapy.
Marx believed that the more a person worked the more alienated they felt. To Marx “alienation consists of the lack of community, so people cannot see their work as contributing to a group of which they are members, since the state …show more content…
He states “we Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork for all personal freedom, activity and independence” (Marx, p. 27-28). Marx strongly believed that private property originated from wage labor, which was a cause of alienation. In Communist Manifest on page 29 he states “All we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it”. If private property and wage-labor were eliminated then people would “promote the existence of the labourer” (Marx, 29). Marx recognized that this solution could not happen overnight and change would occur over a long period of time, but he believed if society stood behind it then people’s feelings of alienation would decrease …show more content…
He recognizes the two sides of the struggle as the id and ego. The id is described as “to contain all the instinctual drives that seek immediate satisfaction” (Stevenson, 155). The id is the part of the brain that is a persons subconscious. People are not aware of their id. The id is like the child part of the brain. The ego is defined as “the conscious mental states, and its function is to perceive the real world” (Stevenson, 155). There is a specific part of the ego that is in conflict with the id called the superego. The superego is the part of a person’s conscious mind where their morals are located. The superego is extremely influential in young children. That is the prime time to teach children wrong and right. These two are in constant competition in our brains, telling us how to act and what to say. The id is more in control when a person is a child but as people grow up their superego develops based on how they are raised, each family has different morals and values. While the super ego and id fight for dominance the ego attempts to balance both sides. Freud also believed that everything came from a person’s inner sexual
Marx believed that the more a person worked the more alienated they felt. To Marx “alienation consists of the lack of community, so people cannot see their work as contributing to a group of which they are members, since the state …show more content…
He states “we Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork for all personal freedom, activity and independence” (Marx, p. 27-28). Marx strongly believed that private property originated from wage labor, which was a cause of alienation. In Communist Manifest on page 29 he states “All we want to do away with, is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it”. If private property and wage-labor were eliminated then people would “promote the existence of the labourer” (Marx, 29). Marx recognized that this solution could not happen overnight and change would occur over a long period of time, but he believed if society stood behind it then people’s feelings of alienation would decrease …show more content…
He recognizes the two sides of the struggle as the id and ego. The id is described as “to contain all the instinctual drives that seek immediate satisfaction” (Stevenson, 155). The id is the part of the brain that is a persons subconscious. People are not aware of their id. The id is like the child part of the brain. The ego is defined as “the conscious mental states, and its function is to perceive the real world” (Stevenson, 155). There is a specific part of the ego that is in conflict with the id called the superego. The superego is the part of a person’s conscious mind where their morals are located. The superego is extremely influential in young children. That is the prime time to teach children wrong and right. These two are in constant competition in our brains, telling us how to act and what to say. The id is more in control when a person is a child but as people grow up their superego develops based on how they are raised, each family has different morals and values. While the super ego and id fight for dominance the ego attempts to balance both sides. Freud also believed that everything came from a person’s inner sexual