According to Sigmund Freud, civilisation is to some extent the cumulative product of our
psychology. Choose the correct option(s):
(A) The purpose of human life is the pursuit of happiness.
(B) Man is wholly good.
(C) Abolition of private property will remove ill-will and hostility among men.
(D) Creative art reflects the purpose of human life.
(E) Civilisation is analogous with the human psyche.
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The correct option is (A), (D) and (E) Only.

According to Sigmund Freud's seminal work, particularly in Civilization and its Discontents, we can analyze the given statements as follows:

Statement (A): The purpose of human life is the pursuit of happiness.
Freud asserts that the purpose of human life is decided by the programme of the pleasure principle, which is essentially the pursuit of happiness and the avoidance of pain. Thus, this statement is correct.

Statement (B): Man is wholly good.
This statement directly contradicts Freud's psychoanalytic view of human nature. Freud emphasizes that human beings possess powerful instinctual aggressive drives (Thanatos or the death drive), making them far from "wholly good." Hence, this statement is incorrect.

Statement (C): Abolition of private property will remove ill-will and hostility among men.
Although Freud discusses the communist perspective that eliminating private property will remove hostility, he explicitly rejects this view. He argues that aggression existed before private property and is an inherent part of human nature, not merely a product of ownership. Thus, this statement is incorrect.

Statement (D): Creative art reflects the purpose of human life.
For Freud, creative art and intellectual pursuits represent sublimation, which is the channeling of instinctual libido and aggressive energy into socially productive and culturally elevated activities. In this way, creative art reflects the sublimated pursuit of the goals of human life. Thus, this statement is correct.

Statement (E): Civilisation is analogous with the human psyche.
Freud draws a clear structural analogy between the development of civilization and the development of the individual human psyche. Just as the individual psyche develops a super-ego to control the impulses of the ego and id, civilization develops a cultural super-ego to regulate and suppress human instincts. Hence, this statement is correct.

Therefore, statements (A), (D), and (E) are the only correct statements, making (A), (D) and (E) Only the most appropriate answer.