All forms of aggression turned to power?
The ego defending itself after having suffered without being able to deal with the suffering?
All forms of aggression in present times. I don't think this is true of past history. It is as if centuries ago physically conquering each other's territory had not been done out of fear. As if aggression hadn't been "personal" in those times and killing each other were just what happened when we conquered each other! Today it's the same but psychologically. Acquiring control over others requires that the others self annihilate without actually having to kill them and the whole process takes place through "love" in the form of identification with a power figure who people believe is more of an "authority" than themselves.
In romantic relationships its very similar. People "die" for each other.
The ego defending itself after having suffered without being able to deal with the suffering?
I'm talking about the childhood period in which children much suffer emotionally. The many rejections mark them. The lack of love and time from adults gradually installs into forms of fear but fear is nothing more than lack of trust. Shy people are filled with that lack of trust but people with excessive vanity who seem very outgoing are also filled with that fear only that they've disguised it in a proportionately opposite direction to shyness. Too much of any feature is in fact the attempt to cover up that fear which is precisely what is "transformed" when the individual can work on his self and restructure his behavior as much as his or her inner psychology.
When does fear arise? When we're afraid!! When we can't trust our surroundings. When people ignore us or hurt us. When our participation is in danger. When children experience this it marks them then they act from that fear with aggression when it's been very severe. Aggression is not only outspokenness, there is a great deal of aggression in other forms of behavior such as indifference and ignoring which tends to be quite common in groups of people who do not resort to open outspoken aggression but apply it by ignoring an individual who they envy but does not have the social requirements he or she needs to be accepted. Those social requirements within the hierarchic structures of society today may be not belonging to the same class, to the same town, not kissing the popular guys ass in no matter what school or job.
They are all I struggles between people. I struggles between people much afraid of each other, reproducing the same suffering that they themselves experienced as children. If we don't take care of our children in the next few generations, they will surely get rid of us with the same lack of compassion with which we brought them up. They are already doing that in the first world in which old people are "thrown" into old people's home and gotten rid of and beginning to happen just like that in third world nations.
As the saying goes: breed crows and they'll pull your eyes out!
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