shers. When one man's shoe became untied, he yelled "SNEAKER!" and everyone around him dropped what they were doing and gave way so this man could tie his shoe. This amazed Tough because one minute everyone looks like they are going to kill one another and the next minute everyone suddenly stops because a shoe was untied.Tough experienced violence like he never saw before. Not the kind of violence that a 911 call is needed for, but a kind of controlled violence that can turn into something nasty if it happens to get out of control. While Tough's own experience in the mosh pit was an eye opening one, others have their own opinions on violence. Sigmund Freud, K.E. Moyer, and Eldon E. Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer each have their own theory of why violence occurs. All different, yet, somewhat alike. Using each of these theories I will relate them to Paul Toughs article "Into the Pit" and give examples of how Tough himself can relate to the theories of violence given throughout my paper. Freud's theory is one of instinct. Freud mentions in his theory, Homo homini lupus, which when translated means mans inhumanity to man. Freud backs that up by saying that man will use someone he knows as a way to satisfy his anger with out being tempted to do so. This means that man will act upon another man with out being provoked to do so and that this is an instinctual behavior that all of mankind has. Freud's theory, which comes from a book entitled Civilization and it's Discontents, is a valid one that can be tied into Paul Tough's article.In accordance with Tough's experience with the mosh pit, Freud's theory can be related to the people in the pit by the way that they act. When Helmet takes the stage someone starts pushing for no reason what so ever. Whoever was doing the pushing was not provoked to push, but by instinct they did. Also, no one in the pit is being violently provoked to attack one another, and yet everyone in the pit is show...
