Violence of man is not a phenomenon of the last centuries. It exists from the very beginning. Close to the end of his career, Freud wrote that in man there is an inborn impulse for aggression. Violence is not so much learned from the environment, it exists inside of us and wants release. The British […]
When Freud (1920) wrote that there appears to be in man an inborn drive for aggression and destruction it created a reaction in the fields of psychoanalysis (and not only). Up until that point the only drive that existed for Freud was the libidinal/life drive or sexual drive. Two decades later, the atrocities of the
We have the tendency to connect maturity with age and expect people of certain age and position to have a mature way of thinking and handling of situations. A brief look at the daily news though shows the real picture of the level of maturity people have especially those that govern the world. I was
On the first day of school after the summer vacation and as I always do, I drove my daughter to school. She was now on second grade. All throughout the first year I walked with her to her class. She demanded that I hold her hand to class and every time I asked her whether
I remember coming home from school one day when I shockingly witnessed my bedroom furniture being rearranged. All hell broke loose. The moral precept to parents or future parents: Never mess with a teenager’s bedroom, at least without their permission. They are living in an internal chaos, struggling to organise strong emotions. The last thing
A friend has seen the picture above of a fence on my business card and she made this comment: “Nice picture, it shows how people build their fences.” I hadn’t thought of the picture in that way before. It’s always fascinating how people see the same thing in different ways. I always thought of the
First of all I would like to thank my daughters who provide me with all the inspirations to write these articles. Our children are the best teachers in becoming better parents so we need to pay the necessary attention in everything they tell us. One day while driving home with my daughter (she was 5
In 1932 Alfred Einstein sent a letter to Sigmund Freud asking him about the human aggression; “Is there a way to free humanity from the suffering of war?” (Freud, 1933) In response Freud wrote back a long letter where he mentions, as a conclusion, to Einstein that it’s useless trying to prevent the human aggression
In her book, “So the witch won’t eat me,” Dorothy Bloch writes about the fears of infanticide small children have due to the vulnerability of their age. In a world of giants and witches children have every reason to have such fears. The fact that such figures could represent unconsciously the parents is a defense
Ever wondered why some song lyrics appear in your mind unexpectedly and you find yourself crooning thinking where did this song come from? Driving outside a high school I started singing the lyrics of Jim Morrison’s song “People are strange.” Coincidence? Schools bring up memories and feelings (some unconscious) from our own childhood and adolescence.
“People are strange when you’re a stranger, faces look ugly when you’re alone…” Read More »
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