Specific traits of current political phenomena (student movement, etc.) can be rendered psychologically comprehensible as resurrections of unmastered oedipal conflicts. Maturity is necessary both for the democratic dialogue and for revolutionary struggles, and both have much better chances of succeeding if one can fight without having to falsify reality, is able to discriminate friend and foe, does not strike unnecessarily, but finds one's aim when there is need to strike. The problem of aggression is essentially that of its social structurization and utilization.