ABSTRACT
Aggression is part of the primitive expression of love. An extremely complex series of defence mechanisms develops, which should be examined in any attempt to understand aggression in a child who has reached the stage of emotional development. The fusion of the aggression along with the erotic component of an experience enhances the feeling of the reality of the experience. The individual may achieve a false fusion of the aggressive and erotic by converting the pure de-fused aggression into masochism, but for this to occur there must be a reliable persecutor, and the reliable persecutor is a sadistic lover. If aggression is lost at the stage of emotional development there is also some degree of loss of capacity to love, that is to say, to make relationships with objects. The fusion of the aggression along with the erotic component of an experience enhances the feeling of the reality of the experience.
