Happiness According to Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, according to Sigmund Freud, defines behavior that’s neither foreign nor unknown to us. In fact, the father of psychoanalysis defined the human being as a figure oriented to the continuous search for pleasure. Therefore, we constantly long for immediate gratification to escape the feeling of repression that our society generates. Freud’s approach differed from more recent approaches that try to explain to us how to ‘be happy’. For example, the positive psychology of Martin Seligman or Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. While these two psychologists spoke about factors such as optimism, resilience, creativity, and wisdom, Freud offered a different perspective. However,…