Alexander Sh. Tkhostov

It is assumed that violence must be consistently excluded from human existence and replaced by a sufficiently vaguely understood tolerance. Nevertheless, violence can not be understood only as a deviation from normal functioning, but as absolutely necessary manifestation of vitality and condition of socialization.

Even a simple child’s education of food handling does not occur smoothly, and the phenomenon of punishment in the broad sense of the term, fundamentally is not removable from the culture. It makes questionable the idea of the perfect harmony in dyads “adult – the child” or “subject – society”. After all, eating with your hands is a lot easier than with a fork. Assimilation of social and cultural norms is not much different from learning law of gravitation through falling practice. Effort and tension are of fundamental importance for generation of higher forms of mentality. It is through the inhibition, delay, denial and stress some of the functions and phenomena of the psyche can be objectified.