crime. Thus the Super-Ego, through moral appeal to the Ego, serves to keep oneself extricated from any behavior which may compromise his social integrity, i.e. violent and criminal aggression. This explanation can thus account for both forms of aggression mentioned above: assertiveness and violent aggression. The former is the result of the Super-Ego’s approval of such actions, which will be accordingly looked upon as favorable socially. The latter is the result of the Ego’s, and the Super-Ego’s, inability to control the deluge of repressed ideas from the Id, and thus results in violent repercussions.A Jungian Analysis of the Nature of AggressionThe Structures of the Psyche and Their Roles in AggressionAccording to C.G. Jung, the progenitor of the most prominent offspring of Freud’s psychoanalysis, analytical psychology, would have described the origins of human aggression through the interactions among the structures of the Psyche and their respective sub-structures. There are three major structures of the Psyche from which an analysis of human aggression can be made. These three major structures of the Jungian Psyche are those of Consciousness, the Personal Unconscious, and the Collective Unconscious. Consciousness is the rough Jungian equivalent to the Freudian Ego, as it serves as the conscious portion of the Psyche. The purpose of Consciousness, much like in psychoanalysis, is to discover as much as possible about the sub-conscious portions of the Psyche in order to procure or maintain good mental health. This is the process that Jung referred to as Individuation. He describes this phenomenon as follows: “I use the term ‘individuation’ to denote the process by which a person becomes a psychological ‘in-dividual,’ that is, a separate, indivisible unity or ‘whole’ ” (Hall, 1973, p. 34). The most important sub-structure of the Consciousness is the Jungian Ego, sim...
