These days we know less about the feeling of hatred than in times when man was more open to his destiny. … These days subjects do not have to shoulder the burden of the experience of hatred in its most consuming forms. And why? Because our civilisation is itself sufficiently one of hatred. Isn’t the path for the race to destruction really rather well marked out for us? Hatred is clothed in our everyday discourse under many guises, it meets with such extraordinarily easy rationalisations.

—Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, BOOK 1