Where do the Violence come from?

WHERE DO THE VIOLENCE COME FROM ?

The dream is one way to get insight in our inner pictures. The other way is our "out actions" (Utspel in Swedish.) A term that I invented in connection with my attempt to describe and analyse psychological projections in our actions.

This unconscious phenomenon when we, in our daily life lay our inner feelings of pain and fear upon other people, things and occurrences in our surroundings, with often destructive consequences in result.
Now it’s not only dream-characters who have to carry our shortcomings and act them out in the dreams, but also living persons who become targets for our projections. It’s here our psychological complexes are starting to play us tricks. When we lay our inward, in form of projections on other people, we give them qualities and opinions which they don’t possess. Then we are responding to these characteristics as if they were real. The world become a reflection of our inner life and our actions a "play" with these reflections.

These phenomenon happens all the time.Just look at a racist, for example, with a low self-esteem and many suppressed emotions of fear and hatred. These feelings have been suppressed for such a long time why he’s no longer aware of theme. Because of this disconnection over time he is not even conscious of possessing them, these painful and banished emotions. Although they are there in his unconscious and operate with strong power.
Here deep inside of him they will create the complex which, as time goes, develops more and more. This grievous complex will steal much of his mental energy and create a diffuse state of anxiety, which has to be reduced. When the racist get in contact with some immigrant, coloured people or just anyone who don’t look or behave like himself, he got a perfect hook for his projections. Now it will be this person or group that have to carry all his own shortcomings. A totally unconscious act. Every time the racist take offence at something with this person or group, he unburden at the same time his own anguish. If we allow this to go on, the racist will not be content only with negative chatter. He will be forced to liquidate, kill if necessary, those expelled aspects of his personality and which he now, with his glasses of projection, sees in other people. Its now he can plant a knife in somebody else’s back and feel relief.
The tragic in this situation is that it’s not his own pain that he has killed but a person of flesh and blood who had to pay for this, the racist’s tendency to project mental stuff on the surroundings.
This, with the actions of the racist, is only one single example of all "out actions" that we can study and analyse in our society. In all the situations where we react and act in an inadequate way, there is psychological knowledge to fetch and to work with, since inadequate actions tells us that projections are involved.
What we have to do, in our capacity as responsible grown-ups, are to confront the young ones with their inner and frightening pictures. These which are shown in dreams and in all kind of "out actions" ( situations very we are overreacting).We have to help our young people to take back their projection by assist them with their integration of rejected aspects of their personality.
It’s important that they dare to see the reality as it actually is which is possible only if they dare to confront themselves, their shadows and complex. If the young ones can see the demons in their own inward they don’t have to find them in the outward. To disarm these monsters from within in a psychological and understandable way will remove the demand for searching revenge and redress in a factual reality.
To confirm someone must mean that we learn to see what cannot be seen but still constitute maybe ninety percent of the human psyche. That is all that exist in the unconscious and then indirectly govern every action and thought.
It’s only through dreams, "out actions" and therapy that we can catch a glimpse of the inner life of a human.How often haven’t we said; How could it happen? After having read about a dread full outrage or experienced it near by. This question is asked, particularly in that case, when we know that the perpetrator is a social person who maybe works, practise sport or is a young student, about whom, everyone in his circle of acquaintances, only have appreciating things to say.
No without the inner pictures we cannot predict the acts of cruelty a person can commit on someone else. But if we, early in a child’s life, allow it’s dreams and "out actions" to guide us, we have the possibility to prevent many of the most destructive crimes later on. That’s why we are obliged to use the information that the dream as well as the "out actions" give to us. We have no excuses, now when we know where to look.

The other group that commit acts of crime are those about which we say, after the offences against somebody or something; What did I tell you? That means that we for a long time have seen how these children have developed in a social destructive way, without doing anything. Here our guilt are total. If we had helped this group at an early stage, by analysing and working with their smaller "out actions" they should have stayed in contact with their feelings something that should have precluded serious cases of crime.

All these my theories about the phenomenon "out action" I have gathered in a book named: Violence of Youth , and describes useful methods which are very much the same as those I use in my dream work with children.
Here in the book I point at different ways to approach the problem and than how to deal with it. In that way none are obliged to say I couldn’t know. Now its more a question about how to use the knowledge in the most effective way.
To do nothing make us accomplices and reinforce the expression that we have the society we deserve.

We all want to create a better world. I´m sure that it means with less violence. That´s why it´s important to me to try to find out; From where do the violence come?
I´m also very interested to take part and share your opinions. There are many ways to look upon the problem, I´m sure, But let us together try to put all the aspects on the table, then we can go from there...*smile*