Pleasure and Happiness Leading to an Imaginative World

Authors: Dayanand, Puran Singh

Country: India

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Abstract: The motivation behind each act of human is the desire for pleasure and satisfaction. This desire when left unfulfilled leads to escapism or to a life where man uses illusions, dreams and lies as props. The root of this escapism and our tendency to have props of illusions can be witnessed in Freudian theory i.e., in the concepts of ‘Pleasure Principle’, ‘Self-Deception’ and ‘Dream Theory’. In Beyond the Pleasure Principle Freud has mentioned that the aim of our mental functioning is pleasure, the reduction of tension and suffering. This continuous craving for pleasure and happiness leads us to an imaginative world which is full of self-deception where we deceive our self and others, and by doing so we start living a life replete with lies and repress truth and reality. This repression is nothing but “the struggle against acceptance of a painful part of reality” (Freud 85). We weave lies because we desire to withdraw from the unwelcoming thoughts, as says T.S. Eliot, “Human kind cannot bear very much reality” (quoted in Kramer 77). This is why, we all love to have props or shields of illusions, lies and dreams.

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Paper Id: 230462

Published On: 2018-02-23

Published In: Volume 6, Issue 1, January-February 2018

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