Love And Hate

Freud’s duel-drive theory of love and hate, sex and aggression is central to understanding human nature. In therapy the role of the therapist is to free the aggressive drives by bringing them into consciousness. Thereby having them dissolved, spent, to have one’s rage accepted but contained, integrated and thereby controlled, tamed or civilized, channeled into constructive paths. Repressed anger is assumed to be the motive force behind most psychopathology.