ABSTRACT
The German feminine noun die Kultur is derived from the Latin word cultura, which comes from the verb colere, cultivate, work the soil, and by extension, to inhabit, care for. From 1921 to 1923, Freud introduced the notion of "cultural suppression", in the wake of the exigencies, of the pressure of culture and obedience to culture. While for the French and the English, it referred to two realities. On the one hand, it referred to the social, ethical, technological, religious, economic, and political deeds that are objects of national pride, and, on the other hand, to progress made by the West and humanity in general. The people in which it has taken place, opponents of civilisation they once were, become vehicles of culture, from whence also the idea of "participants in the culture". Both humanity's cultural process and individual development are vital processes.
