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People are not gentle creatures who only defend themselves; a strong desire for aggression is part of their instinctual endowment
Drawn from what Sigmund Freud said
What Sigmund Freud actually said
- Sigmund Freud Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939)
The bit of truth behind all this—one so eagerly denied—is that men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but that a powerful measure of desire for aggression has to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
Where this was said
↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org
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