Learning about/from psychoanalysis
“Aggression, this second great vital force beside libido, had been identified by Freud variously –at least since the topic pressed itself upon his attention with the events of World War I –as an equally powerful and parallel drive to libido, or one at odds with libido and providing a countervailing pressure, or one which got peculiarly mixed up with and fused with libido (or vice versa, as libido got fused with aggression), or a phenomenon which grew in proportion as libidinal aims were thwarted.-hard to think about views of aggression not being informed by their intrinsic associa