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[...] Freud began to reflect on death and destiny, as well as aggression. According to him, the drive represents a danger from which it is impossible to escape because it is internal and all the more constant. This means that its permanent presence in the existence of every human being implies modifications that will regulate the course of his life. II. Freud and the War « Without a doubt, the influences exerted by war are among the forces capable of producing such a return to the past . [...]
[...] Freud evokes « the pulsional reworking on which our aptitude for civilization rests. The fact that man is the destiny of his drives, present at all times during existence and the origin of transformations. In fact, man does not only defend himself when he is attacked. According to Freud, man is endowed with instinctive drives that confer on him a tendency to aggression. Often controlled, Freud maintains that an extreme violence is found in each of us. It is susceptible to awakening, particularly in a favorable climate for war. [...]
[...] From then on, due to the war, Freud modified his theory of trauma and neuroses. If the drive represents a fundamental concept of psychoanalysis, Freud now qualifies it as energetic and motor. This 'reorganization of the drive'reorganization of the drive is developed, according to him, through a process consisting of three stages, namely, the source, the goal and the object. Drives require satisfaction without considering moral motives. In this regard that he has of the war, Freud thus reveals the complexity of human beings asphyxiated by a repressed past in their unconscious. [...]
[...] In fact, Freud considers the drive as an energetic concept and man as the destiny of his drives. After the concept of the drive according to Freud, we will continue, in a second part, with his conception of war, more precisely, a mass phenomenon that, according to him, is responsible for the psychic misery of « those of the rear. Finally, in a third and final part, we will address this disillusion that emanates from this quote from Freud, « we are allowed to hope in the face of the natural aggressiveness of men and the thirst for power of States. [...]
[...] These aggressive impulses trouble relationships with others without rendering them incapable of civilization. According to Freud, it is the role of civilization to calm these destructive impulses by using morality that condemns the use of violence and by considering the essential role of culture which is an opening for a new humanism. Bibliography - S. Freud, The Malaise in Civilization, Éditions Points, 2010. - S. Freud, « Actuelles on War and Death, 1915. - Cumin, D. (2008). Freud and War. Philosophiques, 35(2) 393-417. [...]
