ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some psychoanalytical exercises and games. To many people, 'aggressiveness' is one of the two basic instincts. Excessive aggression leads to destruction. The author's point of reference is not a theory of the instincts, but a highly relational theory. In this theory, for example, he replaces aggressiveness with the concept of the violence of a proto-emotional state where there is greater or lesser capacity to contain it. A proto-emotion that is not contained can be evacuated and have the destructive effect of a tsunami. However, it is not that the tsunami is, in itself, destructive; its effects are what wreak destruction. A contained tsunami would be pure motive force. What is more, while instinct is something people are endowed with, the violence of an emotion is the result of the success or lack of success that led to the formation or lack of formation of containment structures and metabolization structures.
