![]() Love is a major force that unifies human beings, making it so that civilization does not crumble, helping towards human evolution and human progress. Freud is stating how love occurs naturally in all human beings. ![]() Freud states, “ I do not think that I have made a complete enumeration of the methods by which men strive to gain happiness and keep suffering… I am, of course, speaking of the way of life which makes love the center of everything… It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering…or its love” (Freud 51-52). Love is actually influenced by a range of factors and is actually very complex. He describes love as a way humans try to find happiness as love is a form of escape we constantly yearn for to escape the pains we suffer in our everyday lives. Sigmund Freud categorizes love into two different categories in his book “Civilization and its Discontents”: “Parental Love” and “Sexual love”. ![]() Connecting Freud’s definition of love, Virginia Woolf uses his ideas to show what love is in his book through the use of two characters: James Ramsay and Lily Briscoe. ![]() Freud in his book, Civilization and its Discontents, talks about love and its role in civilization. ![]()
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