Some reflections on the connections between aggression and depression

In his book The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene describes the violent war between the Catholic Church and the Mexican government of Cardenas in 1938. He suggests that ‘the emergence of hatred is purely the result of a failure of the imagination’ (1940: 152). Creativity and imagination, I believe, are closely connected to each other. In fact, I have argued that in some senses psychopathology as a whole can be understood as the failure of the individual to use creativity for living (Kleimberg 2003).