ABSTRACT
This chapter is about morality, imagination, depression, and aggression and I introduce the nuclear situation as a kind of case illustration. The chapter is written in a mixture of familiar and unfamiliar language. This is because unmediated psychodynamics seem to me an unsatisfactory basis for an analysis of culture unless a wider orientation is added, one that embraces the collective features in a cultural situation. So a link is made with a particular approach to moral process that I have developed. Links of that kind, and what we do with them, constitute the beginnings of working out a methodology to aid the integration of psyche’s dynamics, the institutions of depth psychology, and the public sphere. Such an integration reflects the preoccupations of the first chapter and anticipates the content of the final chapter.
