...had another norm ; in concluding Civilization and Its Discontents he wrote: "The fateful question of the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent the cultural process developed in it will succeed in mastering the derangements of communal life caused...

...another are comprised under the heading of ethics. The fateful question for the human species seems to be whether and to what extent their cultural development...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. 167 Freud, Sigmund. 'Civilized' sexual morality and modern nervous illness (1908). In: Strachey, J.,...

...summed up his attitude toward the swelling violence of the twentieth century. The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. It may be that in this respect precisely the present time deserves a special interest. Men have gained...

...hold their manifestations in check by reaction formations in men's minds'; "The fateful question of the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent the cultural process developed in it will succeed in mastering the derangements of communal life caused...

...species is the struggle between the life instincts and the death instincts: The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. It may be that in this respect precisely the present time deserves a special interest. Men have gained...

...He concludes with an admonition that has lost none of its relevance today: "The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction." 27 His account is comprehensible only against the background of institutionalized culture taking on...

...wildest revolutionaries no less passionately than the most virtuous believers. The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. It may be that in this respect precisely the present time deserves a special interest. Men have gained...

...consolation to his fellow human beings, and then concludes with a question: "The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. . . . And now it is to be expected that the other of the two 'Heavenly Powers,' eternal Eros, will...

...that recalls the closing lines of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents: The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to...human instinct of aggression and self-destruction. It may be that in this respect precisely the present time deserves a special interest. Men have gained...

...humanity, the goal of which, through the libidinal bonding of individuals through identification, is "in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction."13 To his credit, Freud was also disturbed by the aggression of the cultural superego...