Reply to Burack

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice,

From what I've tasted of desire,

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.

I shall confess that in reading her comments my impression is that Burack would have wished me to write a book entitled “The Bonds of Hate: Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Rage.” I have nothing against a book so conceived, but needless to say I did not write it. The stated aim of my book is to understand a complex relationship, domination, and to situate it in the context of love as well as hate. Domination may indeed be seen as an outgrowth of hate or rage, but not simply so. To describe