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A study guide to prepare the world for a new phase of human history
The deep roots of human aggression are laid bare in this seminal investigation by one of the foremost psychologists of the 20th century: I turns out that aggression in humans to a large extent is the result processes of thought and acculturation, not of instinct.
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By Erich Fromm 1974
Contents
PART ONE:INSTINCTIVISM, BEHAVOURISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
PART TWO: THE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE INSTINCTIVE THESIS Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
PART THREE: THE VARIETIES OF AGGRESSION AND DESTRUCTIVENESS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE CONDITIONS
Chapter 9 Benign Aggression
Chapter 10 Malignant Aggression: Premises
Chapter 11 Malignant Aggression: Cruelty and Destructiveness
Chapter 12 Malignant Aggression: Necrophilia
Chapter 13 Malignant Aggression: Adolph Hitler
EPILOGUE: ON THE AMBIGUITY OF HOPE "Modern Man" is different from prehistoric man
[But the difference is "learned"] and can again assume a minimal role
...It is legitimate to imagine that man will complete the circle and construct a society in which no one is threatened...
Child by parent, Parent by Superior, no Class by another, no Nation by a Super-power
page 575; para 3mid
To ignore the difficulties is folly [but the possibility exists if the political and psychological road-blocks are removed.]
The malign forms of aggression are not innate... [but we have to allow ambiguity to hope without going into hopelessness]... Nothing can be done... Nothing need to be done.
page578; para 2bottom.
To have faith means to dare think the unthinkable, yet to act within the realistically possible...
page 578; para 1top