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The author traces the history of his encounter, engagement and understanding of the place of aggression in psychoanalytic theory and practice beginning with his formative period when ego psychology and classical conflict theory were dominant, through the introduction of self psychology and his subsequent engagement with the widening, international world of psychoanalytic thinking, including Kleinian, neo-Kleinian, Bionian, post-Bionian, and contemporary French psychoanalytic trends.