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Why War? Einstein-Freud

Correspondence meen Alaa-Eldin , Fourth Year, Political Science
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After talking about the Freud‟s multidimensional man in his lecture on examine the feelings of these communities, we will see a society that
psychoanalysis and removing the mystery around the human motivations feels united and socially solid. At the same time because of their wars,
which are not only sexual motivations because of "survival instinct" but either at the level of the ruling class who describe themselves as being
also aggressive motivations as a result of "death instinct", so the great beyond the limits of the law employed to justify the use of violence .. .
physicist Albert Einstein uncovered his passion for reading That‟s why we can repeat it for the second time; anyone has two
psychoanalysis of Freud in many letters that he sent to him in 1933 and active instincts that keep him alive and make him tend towards
he explained that he can't think about will, feelings, the instinctive life of aggressiveness and destruction. These instincts are mixed with the
human and psychological difficulty a man may have . Because all we human soul but they are in a continuous conflict it ends through
mentioned Einstein wanted to know why wars start and how they end.. “aggressive action instinct”. The rulers use this complicated instincts to
and how could brute powers succeed in stimulating enthusiasm to make reach idealism through this active instincts in order to active the fighting
people sacrifice their lives in wars? It‟s true everyone has the desire of instinct against enemies in wars, so this force him to sacrifice his life and
hate and destruction, as Freud mentioned, that‟s why he can choose this overcome survival instinct that formed him.
way but this emotion exists in extraordinary conditions which are called
mass psychosis. However soldiers choose this because they believe they The only way to prevent wars from happening especially civil wars is
are defending the high interests and the best way to deter enemies is to to reduce death desire as it‟s the main reason for instincts that encourage
attack them. We can use this case to explain international wars but what fighting in order to survive, all of these we mentioned turn from inside
about civil wars? the person to the outside world; we won‟t do that by suppressing
aggressive conflicts -as Bolsheviks did and they failed- but we will do
Freud received this letter from Einstein and wrote to him explanatory that by using anti agent which is “Eros” in order to create relations and
answers to these questions where he explained war, whether civil or spread good feelings among people in the society- this is the same role
international by understanding the relationship between power and right of religions as it uses the same language; for example “ love your
. right came here in the sense of the law-; where conflicting interests relative the same way you love yourself”- those feelings need to be
between the conflicting parties who resort use violence while using identified in the human society. There is no result of cutting these
weapons to exclude the other - like the conflict in the animal kingdom - mutual relations that‟s why you, many people and I are strongly
the result of that conflict will be the victory of one party over the other opposing wars as we can‟t accept it as a part of our life that we should
by slaughtering the enemy - a human instinctive nostalgia - or by adapt to and it‟s a normal phenomenon as it‟s a biological instinct.
breaking its power and humiliating it through oppression, and then Stopping these wars requires cultural changes to reduce the aggressive
comes the force The New Superior Victory. It will perpetuate brutal instinctive motivations that drive people to start wars. This also requires
violence, but it will take a new course that legitimizes this violence by explaining the destruction that will happen as results of wars in the
using the law as the representative of all parties agreeing with it . But in future so we should focus on the love instinct and spread it in the society
fact it is far from it - this lawful violence will be used by the new brute to move forward to happiness and to live without conflicts.
force in power. Those who triumph among the new superior power will
seek power, authority violence and an endless cycle of war, but if we Revised and Translated by : Salma Bayoumi

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