Furthermore, these laws suppress our natural instincts. ... This "powerful instinct" is our innate impulse for destruction: "Besides the instinct to preserve living substance and to join it into ever larger units, there must another, contrary instinct seeking to dissolve those units and to bring them back to their primeval, inorganic state" (Freud 77). ... Freud traces all actions and instincts back to "sexual instinct" or what Freud refers to as libido and "aggressive instinct" (within the individual). ... Freud found that the difference between animals and humans with regards to work is q...

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Each character experiences the competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live morally, act peacefully, follow the true and the good or the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act violently and enforce one's will. ... This divine bow made in civilised way is used for primitive ends of survival, making the great archer, who owns the formidable bow of Hercules, as savage and elemental as the island that he inhabits: he hunts wild animals and birds, lives in a cave - his animal den. ... A further paradox is that the hunter is being hunted like a wou...

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Thus, if looking at the animal instinct, they are also setting the border between the outsider and also the same species to protect the community and their areas. ... "They enhance selection of 'worthy males' and provide breeding stations for animals that require male assistance in raising the young" (Westin, 57). ...

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