Hobbesian pessimism about human nature anticipated Freud’s later views

Evidence

In his major work, The Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) offered a pessimistic view of the life of political man as “nasty, brutish, and short.” This view anticipated Sigmund Freud’s (1865–1939) later writings on the nature of man and society, especially Civilization and its Discontents (1930), in which society is seen as imposing muchneeded restraint on the individual’s sexual and aggressive impulses. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 97

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• XREF: connects to: Freud’s turn to the death instinct paralleled the historical decline of the bourgeois family — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 355