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Paul Kirby IR200 Essay Two "Entertaining, but of little relevance to the study of international relations". Discuss this proposition in relation to the writings of Freud. Sigmund Freud remains a figure whose influence it is hard to over-state. While many of his ideas in the field of depth psychology, a field he largely created, have been compromised and challenged over the course of the 20th century his influence remains palpable. We continue to use terms that Freud originated almost unthinkingly - concepts of frustration, aggression, guilt, anxiety, projection, defence mechanisms and the unconscious remain dominant. Few of Freud's writings touch on matters of direct interest to international relations but those that do have not only provided compelling arguments on the origins of war, society and violence but continue to be of importance. Civilization and Its Discontents [which was itself an expansion of Freud's paper Future of an Illusion] and Freud's brief correspondence with...

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