When will it become easier?
When ego mediates id and superego effectively after years of analysis.
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Unconscious conflicts generate suffering. Repressed drives return as symptoms. Difficulty persists until you resolve childhood trauma, recognize defense mechanisms, integrate unconscious material. Civilization inherently produces discontent (Thanatos vs Eros).
Practical Lever
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Psychoanalysis. Dream analysis. Free association. Transference work. Bring unconscious to consciousness. Sublimation over repression.
Related Perspectives
Advaita Vedanta
internal
When you realize Atman equals Brahman (Self equals Absolute).
Similar mechanism: internal
Buddhism (Theravada/Mahayana)
internal
When you extinguish craving (tṛṣṇā).
Similar mechanism: internal
Absurdism
Never, and caring about this question is the error.
Contrasting perspective: accept
Anarchism (Kropotkin)
After spontaneous mutual aid abolishes coercive hierarchy.
Contrasting perspective: external
Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
When virtue becomes second nature through decades of practice.
Similar timeline: Months to years