ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of Sigmund Freud's idea on international politics and war and compare and contrast the two men's views. When C. G. Jung looked at political events he saw nation-states as the main actors. Like the International Politics theorists of the twentieth century, he was concerned at how states attempt to pursue their diplomatic and strategic policies while constrained by a part-formedly, partly-articulated international system. In contrast to Jung, Freud devoted relatively little attention to commentating on the international politics that occurred around him. In terms of inter-state politics, Freud was too optimistic when he assumed that democracies were necessarily more peaceful than dictatorships. Jung's lack of attention to aggression causes a problem when one tries to compare Freud's ideas on individual aggression with Jung's ideas on national and racial issues in international politics. In terms of inter-state politics, Freud was too optimistic when he assumed that democracies were necessarily more peaceful than dictatorships.
