Seeking Pleasure And Agression Is Part Of Human Instinct

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Term Paper Title	Seeking Pleasure And Agression Is Part Of Human Instinct
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Seeking Pleasure and Agression Is Part of Human Instinct

Seeking Pleasure and Agression Is Part of Human Instinct

        Name: Mohamed Fakhry A.Wahab

     Based on Freud concepts of pleasure and aggression, discuses Hay Ibn
Yaqzan and The Island of Animals
     It is said to be that seeking pleasure and aggression are a part of our
human Instinct.  We seek pleasure to shorten the time of our unhappiness. We
live in a constant struggle to be always happy, and we use all the ways that
take us to happiness.  Aggression, on the otherhand, is a part of our human
nature, which can be hidden deep down in our subconcousnes and explodes in
certain situations, or it can be on the surface of our behavior and inconstant
use.  Sources of happiness may differ from one person to another, but the one
source of our human gratification that we all agree upon, is the happiness
derived from sexual pleasure.  Our souls strive for sexual pleasure to be
elevated from one degree of human happiness to another.  Freud said that “what
we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the ... satisfaction of
needs which have been dammed up to a high degree, and it is from its nature only
possible as an episodic phenomenon.” (25).  At the sametime, we explore those
human instincts in the presence of civilization which set some rules and
regulation that are surpassingly acting as guidelines for the survival of
humanity.  Hay Ibn Yaqzan and The Island of animals, are two different human
experiences that discover our two core human instincts, pleasure and aggression.
In Hay, we will find that his journey with his own instincts is different from
our own human instincts, but it is the same when it comes to the roll of
civilization with dealing with them.  On the otherhand, The Island of Animals
tends to dig in our human aggression, and shows how humanity uses civilization
as a curtain to hide behind it.
        Freud concept of pleasure and happiness is related to Hay in only one
way.  It is not in the kind of happiness itself , whether if is sexual or
spiritual, but  it is similar in the procedure and the definitions of happiness
or pleasure.  In other words, pleasure to Freud is basically in sexual terms, “
Sexual gratification is the prototype of all forms of individual happiness...”.
On the otherhand, Hay Ibn Yaqzan's happiness or his pleasure is found in totally
different kind of human instinct, which is the substitute gratification for
sexual pleasure, because religion and science are...

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