Sometimes people feel the need to be freed of history, to be naked once more on an idyllic imaginary island, because civilization can be frightening.

Probably Freud did say, "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." Perhaps he wanted to point out that there was aggression hidden with and within language when people began to be 'civilized'. But there was something Freud did not emphasize: that the aggres