Comparing Nietzche And Freud

Nietzche and Freud both discuss the nature of will and struggle and how it relates to human existence. Nietzsche does this in his book The Gay Science book V #349 and Freud does this in Civilization and its Discontents chapter eighteen. In The gay science #349, Nietzsche discusses our will of power. He mentions how our will to live is our desire to want to be the best at what we do and have power. He writes “the great and small struggle always revolves around superiority, around growth and expansion, around power-in accordance with the will to power which is will of life”(Nietzsche pg. 292) . He differed from Freud as Freud was with society and Nietzsche was not. Nietzsche believed in being the best and standing out from the rest of society.
Freud was with society and civilization and believed in unity. He does this by expressing guilt. Guilt to Freud is seen as something that has a negative impact. If someone is full of too much guilt then they will negatively impact society and society will have a harder time functioning. He goes on to say that guilt is relieved through sin. He writes “they claim to redeem mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin”(Freud pg.83). Freud discusses Christianity by stating that the sense of guilt you feel can be redeemed through death.
Freud further explains guilt by using the super ego, conscience, sense of guilt, and need for punishment. The super ego is our idea of what we want to become based on the rules of society. Freud writes, “ The super-ego is an agency which has been inferred by us and conscience is a function which we ascribe, among other functions, to that agency”
( Freud pg .83). The conscience is our morals that tell us what we are doing is right or wrong. This works with our super ego because we know what is right and wrong through society and its rules. Guilt comes from the super ego punishing the ego. If a person is not acting in the way that the superego demands for their best interest, then they are punished with