The Importance Of True Happiness

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Self-knowledge, the knowledge ones has about their personality, feelings, emotions, beliefs and motivations can be contributed to true happiness. My definition of true happiness in this case is the feeling one gets when they are able to make a positive change about themself. My new human civilization that is using psychotherapy will create societies that are filled with happiness. Happiness can be achieved through self-knowledge because an individual has a better understanding of themselves, like their strengths and weakness, as well as their emotions. This in turn due to this new knowledge allows the individual to makes changes to themselves like strengthening certain areas they know they can benefit from, as well as better cope with emotions that are normally hindering them. Because these new humans are coping …show more content…

This is due to a society exerting unwanted pressures and conformity on an individual (Stevenson, 217). One can make an argument then that a world filled with a Freudian view of human nature can conclude that a Freudian civilization would not contain a society, therefore leading to chaos as a societies rules ground human action and gives guidance to individuals. Though one can say that Freud, even though believing that civilizations put unwanted pressure on a person, can actually help relieve a human’s internal conflict with helping psychotherapy. Society can be seen to reinforce the superego, the moral portion of our mind, which in turn help the go balance the Id. Society can help by gently instill and reinforce the good instincts and actually help in prevent the bad instincts, which Freud labeled as sadism, aggression, and self-destruction (Stevenson, 213). Also in my civilization, because these humans have a greater understanding of each other, they will be less likely to impose strict social norms that would normally put pressure on an

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