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Civilization and Saw (Thesis: The Reverse Bear Trap scene in the movie…

- - - - drug addict
      - "[...] any restriction of this outward-directed aggression would be bound to increase the degree of self-destruction [...]" (p. 53).
    - - Build up of emotions can lead to violence
        
        she stabbed him not only once but multiple times when on big movement could have sufficed (add proof)
        
        primitive (Hobb's state of nature)
        
        seen as a victim (pitied) (civilzied self) yet she showed tons of aggression once put in danger
        
        "The reality behind all this, which many would deny, is that human beings are not gentle creatures in need of love, at most able to defend themselves if attacked; on the contrary, they can count a powerful share of aggression among their instinctual" (p. 48).
      - Unease of forgoing aggression
        
        social norms and aggression
        
        "It is clearly not easy for people to forgo the satisfaction of their tendency to aggression. To do so makes them feel uneasy" (p.49).
    - - Death drive, drive for destruction
  - - - faced with authority (police)
      - her own super-ego punished her for her fulfilled act of aggression although it saved her life
      - without the drive she felt so guilty to have, she would not have survived
      - If she had followed her super-ego, she would no longer be alive. In other words, her instinctual drives saved her life although the actions that followed are not morally correct.
        
        ‘the sense of guilt [is] the most important problem in the development of civilization and the price we pay for cultural progress is a loss of happiness, arising from a heightened sense of guilt’ (p. 71)
    - - "The subject-ego is being punished for its guilty desires, but the punishing energy is taken from the subject’s fury at the agent of punishment, who in fact also becomes its object. p.12).
      - "[...] aggressiveness that accompanies renounced desire" (p.12)
      - Origins (p.58)
        
        Fear of authority
        
        forgo satisfaction of our drives
        
        unease or guilt
        
        Fear of super-ego
        
        related to anxiety
        
        punishment
        
        aggression is directed against person's own ego
        
        good & bad is internalized idea taught by external authority (parents, law)
  - - - "Freud resolutely holds on to the notion of a non-erotic aggression at the same time that his argument moves inexorably towards a view of aggression (directed towards the world or towards the self) as intense erotic excitement." p.13
      - strong breathing, moaning
      - red blood (liquid)
      - passionate stabbing
    - - "[...] whose purpose is to gather together individuals, then families and finally tribes, peoples and nations in one great unit – humanity" (p. 54).
      - libido