Coetzee here joins Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mikhail Bakhtin, and other modern thinkers in grappling with a problem articulated compellingly by Sigmund Freud: ???It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are people left over to receive the manifestation of their aggressiveness.???3 Simone de Beauvoir puts this idea still more baldly: