Waking up every morning, beating the rush hour, working endless hours for money and taking care of the family are all arduous acts we do on a daily basis. We do all these things not only to survive but also because they help bring happiness and help avoid pain over time. However, "man has exchanged a portion of his possibilities of happiness for a portion of security (73). This sacrifice made by man for security in civilization leads to frustration because man has an instinctual sex drive and "(an) inclination to aggression" (69). Naturally, we are people whose lives should be controlled by aggressiveness and our libido but because of the rules of society, these instinctual behaviors are subjugated. This suppression of our instinctual behaviors causes in some, a condition known as neurosis, which according to Freud causes "frustrations of sexual life which people known as neurotics cannot tolerate (64). "The neurotic creates substitutive satisfactions for himself in his symptoms, and these either cause him suffering in themselves or become sources of suffering for him by raising difficulties in his relations with his environment and the society he belongs to (64). Gilgamesh, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, embodies the instinctual behavior acted out by a neurotic as described by Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents because his actions are erratic and lean towards the human instinctual behavior of love or aggressiveness as evidenced by him making love to all of Uruk's women and him killing Humbaba. According to Sigmund Freud, in the book Civilization and Discontents, "a person becomes neurotic because he cannot tolerate the amount of frustration which society imposes on him in the service of its cultural ideals and it (is) inferred from this that the abolition or reduction of those demands result in a return to possibilities of happiness" (39). For a neurotic person to be happy they may break the rules set forth by society and