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The author believes that violence cannot be understood solely from a sociological or environmental perspective. Violence and destructivity are rooted in the individual and result when the aggressive impulses are not fused with libidinal drives. Sociopolitical and environmental factors may, however, influence the patterning of the drives. One of the tasks of the modern psychoanalyst is to convert destructive aggression into constructive aggression.