Seeking Pleasure And Aggression Is Part Of Human Instinct

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acting as guidelines for the survival of
humanity. Hay Ibn Yaqzan and The Island of animals, are two different human
experiences that discover our two core human instincts, pleasure and aggression.
In Hay, we will find that his journey with his own instincts is different from
our own human instincts, but it is the same when it comes to the roll of
civilization with dealing with them. On the otherhand, The Island of Animals
tends to dig in our human aggression, and shows how humanity uses civilization
as a curtain to hide behind it.
Freud concept of pleasure and happiness is related to Hay in only one
way. It is not in the kind of happiness itself , whether if is sexual or
spiritual, but it is similar in the procedure and the definitions of happiness
or pleasure. In other words, pleasure to Freud is basically in sexual terms, “
Sexual gratification is the prototype of all forms of individual happiness...”.
On the otherhand, Hay Ibn Yaqzan's happiness or his ...

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knew that “what misery
moreburdeing than recounting all you do from the time you get up to the time you
go to bed without finding a singal action that did not amount to seeking one of
these vile, sensory aims:...pleasure seeking...venting rage...”(71) As we can
see pleasure for Salaman and his friends is totally different from Hay's
pleasure. The difference between Freud's concept and Hay, is that in reality we
do not fight or even escape to reach our basic human instinct, but rather we
create substitute gratification's. According to Freud “Civilization compensates
the individual by redirecting his libidinal energies into socially acceptable
forms of amusement and diversion.” But as we ...

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