The ego is the active, conscious, decision-making self. Freud asserts, as he has in other articles, that the self can be divided into ego, id, and superego. The great majority of people only work under the stress of necessity, and this natural human aversion to work raises most difficult social problems. Freud seeks to investigate the means by which an individual relates to an abstraction like God. They do not strive after it as they do after other possibilities of satisfaction. And yet, as a path to happiness, work is not highly prized by men. Professional activity is a source of special satisfaction if it is a freely chosen one - if, that is to say, by means of sublimation, it makes possible the use of existing inclinations, of persisting or constitutionally reinforced instinctual impulses. Sigmund Freud, (born May 6, 1856, Freiberg, Moravia, Austrian Empire now Píbor, Czech Republicdied September 23, 1939, London, England), Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensible to the preservation and justification of existence in society. “No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
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