Nor did Blake mind conflicts.
The Millers don't mind conflicts of interest.
But, in a significant irony, her theorization of the mind conflicted with her analysis of Nazism in Origins and Eichmann.
Carl Jung theorized that dreams provided a means to resolve conflicts between an individual's conscious and unconscious mind, conflicts that reflected the tensions of both the individual's internal sense of self and a sense of self in society.
In his mind, the conflict is perpetual.
Support him in his new state of mind, avoid conflict, praise him.
Bring to mind a conflict at work, and you'll probably have the perpetrator in mind: your incompetent boss, that passive-aggressive colleague, or the resource-hoarding peer in another department.
It was created by Serbian irresponsibility (although she stops short of calling Serbia a rogue state, as Christopher Clark has done), Austrian vengefulness and the "blank cheque" the Kaiser issued to Vienna (before changing his mind as conflict approached).
The real action of "Native Son" takes place in Bigger's mind: the conflict of impulse (especially in the sexual tension with Mary Dalton, the details of which were drastically reduced at the insistence of the Book-of-the-Month Club), the apprehension of motive, the rationalization of emotion and, finally, the creation of meaning, which is the subject of the novel's concluding section.
And saber rattling, never mind actual conflict, on the seas bounding the Middle East also moves markets, political calculations, and often the U.S. Naval fleet.
