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Aggression is Frustrated Power-lust
A number of psychologists hold that aggression is a basic instinct, meaning that it is a primitive drive and therefore cannot be derived from, or decomposed into, other drives. The truth is that aggression is not a basic drive. Desire for power is a basic drive, and aggression is what results when that desire is frustrated. Lest this sound glibly reductive, ask yourself: Would a creature with unlimited power that was otherwise like us have aggression?
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