Did Sigmund Freud consider how violence in human society could be understood psychoanalytically?
A. The major work in which he discussed the problem of violence was Civilization and its Discontents (1930) in which he discussed the irremediable antagonism between the demands of instinct and the restrictions of civilization. In Thoughts on War and Death (1915), written at the beginning of the horrors of World War I, he wrote about the general, including his own, disillusionment brought about by countries acting immorally and by individuals acting brutally.
