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Aggressivity (''agressivité'') is one of the central issues that Lacan deals with in his papers in the period 1936 to the early 1950s.
The first point that should be noted is that Lacan draws a distinction between aggressivity and aggression, in that the latter refers only to [[violence|violent]] [[act]]s whereas the former is a fundamental relation which underlies not only such acts but many other phenomena also.<ref>see Sl, 177</ref>
Thus aggressivity is just as present, Lacan argues, in apparently loving acts as in violent ones; it "underlies the activity of the philanthropist, the idealist, the pedagogue, and even the reformer.<ref>E, 7</ref>
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