This article aims to show how aggressiveness was taken into account by psychoanalysis from the first Freudian essays to Lacan’s reinterpretation, which, starting from aggressiveness of the subject directed to a similar other, evolves to the concept of hatred of the Other. In this regard, we emphasize the last stage of Lacan’s teaching, which highlights the concept of Real, crucial to understand the inception of hatred in the subjective constitution. We show how this reference starts to influence the way culture - and especially the clinic - are affected, summoning the subject to deal with the Real of existence.
Key words:
Aggressiveness; hatred; Real; Other; act