Sigmund Freud's work is very pessimistic as it emphasizes human suffering and our inability to control the forces of malice that surround us. Freud says that much of the harm and misery we escape is simply due to luck. Only by chance do we escape these terrible things. Freud talks about how pleasure and meaning can be derived from work (28). His examples are; an artist who receives great satisfaction by creating great works of art, or scientists who make great discoveries. But within these statements, we see Freud's underlying pessimism, different from that of Friedrich Nietzsche, who is very optimistic about the future and the potential of man. When Freud goes on to say that pleasure situations derived from work, and other similar situations, are not really as satisfying as the pursuit of instinctive impulses and immediate gratification, we see his pessimism about man's potential. Freud, because of civilization, thinks that man is condemned to a suffering existence. Freud states that to achieve a feeling of happiness there are few or no ways that can be implemented. Freud believes that our values ​​and beliefs that guide our behavior arise from civilization. Compared to Nietzsche's "lamb logic" example from his Genealogy of Morality, Freud's argument is similar. In the example there is a bird of prey acting according to its nature. It feasts and devours little grass by eating lambs. He does it simply because he likes to eat lambs and because lambs can't do anything about it. Eventually the lambs, representing a weaker group in society, convince the bird of prey that eating them is bad or immoral. The bird of prey, contrary to its nature and its interest, listens to them. He stops using his p...... middle of paper ...... similar to Freud's idea of ​​consciousness. What we decide and think freely is a small and peripheral part of our motivation, and we worry highly ignorant of ourselves and great in self-deception, as Nietzsche pointed out in the example comparing humans to bees. This gives us the need for self-examination which is what Freud's psychoanalysis was founded on. Freud saw a dialectical conflict within the human mind. Civilization seeks to categorize and group individuals into families, peoples, nations, etc., “but the natural aggressive instinct of man, the hostility of each against all and of all against each, opposes this program of civilization” (81). Nietzsche would criticize Freud's idea of ​​the aggressive nature of man by stating that it is man's irrational behavior that manifests itself in this aggression. Nietzsche would say that this is the man expressing himself and finding his happy niche.