In 1932, amidst a world edging toward another catastrophic war, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud with a deceptively simple question: Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war? Freud’s response, later published as Why War?, offers a psychoanalytic lens on humanity’s destructive impulses. While deeply rooted in drive theory and […]
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
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
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