A Chip on Your Shoulder Meaning Definition: A bad attitude that tends to get someone upset easily, oftentimes stemming from a grudge held against someone. The idiom chip on oneâs shoulder refers to someone with a belligerent attitude or grievance, which usually comes from a grudge one holds against someone or something. This bad attitude most often refers to perceived unjust treatment.
The reason why the period in which Freud lived was important and significant in shaping and sharing of his ideas was because he lived in a very conservative period where people weren't inclined to discuss certain things. What he did however was he showed that the superficial niceness of people had certain causes.
As Freud notes elsewhere in the text, the ego and superego play the roles of watchdogs, keeping the demands of the pleasure principle in check through the moderating influences of experience (Freud's reality principle) and morality. For Freud, this battle within the personality gets reflected in a society. The society passes laws that limit our freedom, and therefore our happiness, but encourage order and morality. Freud notes that the exchange of happiness for security is, in the end, worthwhile and necessary to maintaining a civilization.