Freud wrote about the Death Drive,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
"In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive towards death, self-destruction and the return to the inorganic: "the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state"
From Civilization and Its Discontents,
"Freud applied his new theoretical construct in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) to the difficulties inherent in Western civilization - indeed, in civilization and in social life as a whole. In particular, given that "a portion of the [death] instinct is diverted towards the external world and comes to light as an instinct of aggressiveness', he saw 'the inclination to aggression...[as] the greatest impediment to civilization".[26] The need to overcome such aggression entailed the formation of the [cultural] superego: "We have even been guilty of the heresy of attributing the origin of conscience to this diversion inwards of aggressiveness".[27] The presence thereafter in the individual of the superego and a related sense of guilt - "Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by...setting up an agency within him to watch over it"[28] - leaves an abiding sense of uneasiness inherent in civilized life, thereby providing a structural explanation for 'the suffering of civilized man'.[29]"
Sounds familiar
Jung I believe, predicted a world war based on what clients were expressing to him. I believe it had to do with unexpressed aggression.
It seems humanity, to get to the next stage of evolution has to learn to express aggression, not repress or suppress aggression. ( feminism, political correctness, thought-control, the stuff that's spoken about in here )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive
"In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive towards death, self-destruction and the return to the inorganic: "the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state"
From Civilization and Its Discontents,
"Freud applied his new theoretical construct in Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) to the difficulties inherent in Western civilization - indeed, in civilization and in social life as a whole. In particular, given that "a portion of the [death] instinct is diverted towards the external world and comes to light as an instinct of aggressiveness', he saw 'the inclination to aggression...[as] the greatest impediment to civilization".[26] The need to overcome such aggression entailed the formation of the [cultural] superego: "We have even been guilty of the heresy of attributing the origin of conscience to this diversion inwards of aggressiveness".[27] The presence thereafter in the individual of the superego and a related sense of guilt - "Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by...setting up an agency within him to watch over it"[28] - leaves an abiding sense of uneasiness inherent in civilized life, thereby providing a structural explanation for 'the suffering of civilized man'.[29]"
Sounds familiar
Jung I believe, predicted a world war based on what clients were expressing to him. I believe it had to do with unexpressed aggression.
It seems humanity, to get to the next stage of evolution has to learn to express aggression, not repress or suppress aggression. ( feminism, political correctness, thought-control, the stuff that's spoken about in here )