Punk

Punk

Punk is a term applied to a child or teenager who acts in an antisocial way. Punk
music is a form of rebellion, and it turned against all other musical forms and influences at
its time of creation. Punk music is as much cultural as it is musical. It is anarchic, against society, and
against everything in established order. Patrick Goldstein's article, "Violence Sneaks into Punk Scene", is
about one man's observation of the experiences with violence
and aggressive nature of youth's rebellion. In the author's opinion, "The accounts of
senseless violence, vandalism, and even mutilation at some area rock clubs read like a report from a war
zone." Throughout Goldstein's article, Freudian theory can be utilized to explain the aggressive nature of
the punk movement and youths involved in it.
There are many different theories as to human nature. One of these theories exists under the
thoughts of a prominent philosopher, and founder of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. His deductive
argument entails his conclusion that man is bad, or as Freud explains it in his book, Civilization and Its
Discontents, "Homo homini lupus." This phrase literally means man is a wolf to man. Freud felt all men
are innately evil and his aggression lies within him as part of human nature.
Freud felt aggression can be hidden deep in our subconscious and explode in certain situations. In
Goldstein's article, there are many examples to show Freud's opinion to be true. As one punk ...

Punk

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