The anatomy of human destructiveness /
Erich Fromm & rsquo;s groundbreaking examination of aggression and human nature Throughout history, humans have shown an incredible talent for destruction as well as creation. Aggression has driven us to great heights and brutal lows. In The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, renowned social psyc...
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2013
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Terminology; Introduction: Instincts and Human Passions; Part I: Instinctivism, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis; 1. The Instinctivists; The Older Instinctivists; The Neoinstinctivists: Sigmund Freud and Konrad Lorenz: Freud''s Concept of Aggression; Lorenz''s Theory of Aggression; Freud and Lorenz: Their Similarities and Differences; 2. Environmentalists and Behaviorists; Enlightenment Environmentalism; Behaviorism; B.F. Skinner''s Neobehaviorism; Goals and Values; The Reasons for Skinnerism''s Popularity; Behaviorism and Aggression.
- On Psychological ExperimentsThe Frustration-Aggression Theory; 3. Instinctivism and Behaviorism: Their Differences and Similarities; A Common Ground; More Recent Views; The Political and Social Background of Both Theories; 4. The Psychoanalytic Approach to the Understanding of Aggression; Part II: The Evidence Against the Instinctivist Thesis; 5. Neurophysiology; The Relationship of Psychology to Neurophysiology; The Brain as a Basis for Aggressive Behavior; The Defensive Function of Aggression; The ""Flight"" Instinct; Predation and Aggression; 6. Animal Behavior; Aggression in Captivity.
- Human Aggression and CrowdingAggression in the Wild; Territorialism and Dominance; Aggressiveness Among Other Mammals; Has Man an Inhibition Against Killing?; 7. Paleontology; Is Man One Species?; Is Man a Predatory Animal?; 8. Anthropology; Man the Hunter
- The Anthropological Adam?; Aggression and Primitive Hunters; Primitive Hunters
- The Affluent Society?; Primitive Warfare; The Neolithic Revolution; Prehistoric Societies and Human Nature
- The Urban Revolution; Aggressiveness in Primitive Cultures; Analysis of Thirty Primitive Tribes; System A: Life-Affirmative Societies.
- System B: Nondestructive-Aggressive SocietiesSystem C: Destructive Societies; Examples of the Three Systems; The Evidence for Destructiveness and Cruelty; Part III: The Varieties of Aggression and Destructiveness and Their Respective Conditions; 9. Benign Aggression; Preliminary Remarks; Pseudoaggression; Accidental Aggression; Playful Aggression; Self-Assertive Aggression; Defensive Aggression; Difference Between Animals and Man; Aggression and Freedom; Aggression and Narcissism; Aggression and Resistance; Conformist Aggression; Instrumental Aggression; On the Causes of War.
- The Conditions for the Reduction of Defensive Aggression10. Malignant Aggression: Premises; Preliminary Remarks; Man''s Nature; The Existential Needs of Man and the Various Character-Rooted Passions; A Frame of Orientation and Devotion; Rootedness; Unity; Effectiveness; Excitation and Stimulation; Chronic Depression-Boredom; Character Structure; Conditions for the Development of Character-Rooted Passions; Neurophysiological Conditions; Social Conditions; On the Rationality and Irrationality of Instincts and Passions; Psychical Functions of the Passions.
