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Why Do So Many Aggressive People Torture Others?

Usually, because they suffer

Christina Sponias
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3 min readOct 21, 2024

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An aggressive man who likes to torture others.
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Aggression is part of human nature because we have a primitive and wild part of our brain that has not gone through an awareness process like our conscience and remains in a violent state.

However, people who have a strong conscience can remain calm and are kind.

Those who become aggressive have traumatic experiences and end up becoming difficult people who make everyone around them suffer because they are mentally ill and thus, controlled by the primitive part of their brain.

I have noticed this several times. Many people who send me their dreams for me to translate according to the method discovered by Carl Jung are very aggressive, including towards me. They are rude to everyone and enjoy torturing the people who depend on them.

When analyzing their biographical data, I always see that they have suffered a lot in life, and their aggression and evil result from the negative experiences they have had, in addition to the influence of the primitive and wild part of their brains, which does not allow them to think logically and forgive their enemies.

As Jung said: “The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”

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Christina Sponias
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Written by Christina Sponias

I’m a literature writer and a philosopher who became a mental health therapist through dream translation after continuing Carl Jung’s research.

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