As a result of this primary hostility of people against each other, civilized society is constantly threatened with disintegration. The shared interests of a collective of workers would not hold it together; instinctual passions are stronger than reasonable interests. Civilization has to muster everything possible to impose limits on the aggressive drives of people and to suppress them from being expressed through the formation of psychical reactions. Hence the array of methods that are supposed to drive people to identification and goal-inhibited love relationships, hence the restriction of
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