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The subject of this paper is not aggression, love, or psychoanalysis per se, but the discovery of new truths about people and of how these truths help in facilitating development and functioning.
When I first worked with schizophrenic patients, I discovered much to my surprise, that love does not help! I really was disappointed when I found one could give schizophrenic patients all the love possible and it just doesn't help them.
When I worked with a child guidance agency in New York I had similar experiences with children. They could be given a lot of affection, a lot of service, and provided with a great deal of help. It doesn't necessarily make them better. As a matter of fact some get worse; the more one tries to help them, the more destructive they become.
Many leaders of society are concerned with how to provide more service to people in need and how to help society improve and not destroy itself. One of my students asked me to tell her how we could prevent society from destroying itself. I don't know how to answer that because I have not worked with society. I have worked with individual people in my office and I've worked with groups. I can tell you how to prevent individuals from destroying themselves and I can tell you how to prevent groups from destroying themselves.
Individuals, regardless of their personality structure, or their ability to handle emotions and impulses, can become very destructive.