The anatomy of human destructiveness / Erich Fromm.
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TextPublisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1973Description: xvi, 521 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0030075963 [hardbound]Subject(s): Aggressiveness | Violence| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Part one Instinctivism, behaviorism, psychoanalysis -- Part two The evidence against the instinctivist thesis -- Part three The varieties of aggression and destructiveness and their respective conditions.
"This study is the first volume of a comprehensive work on psychoanalytic theory. I started with the study of aggression and destructiveness because, aside from being one of the fundamental theoretical problems in psychoanalysis, the wave of destructiveness engulfing the world makes it also one of the most practically relevant ones.
When I started this book over six years ago I greatly underestimated the difficulties I would encounter. It soon became apparent that I could not write adequately about human destructiveness if I remained within the limits of my main field of competence, that of psychoanalysis.
While this investigation is primarily meant to be a psychoanalytic one, I also needed a modicum of knowledge in other fields, particularly neurophysiology, animal psychology, paleontology, and anthropology, in order to avoid working in too narrow and, hence, a distorting frame of reference. At least I had to be able to check my conclusions with the main data from other fields to make certain that my hypotheses did not contradict them and to determine whether, as was my hope, they confirmed my hypothesis.
Since no work existed that reports and integrates the findings on aggression in all these fields, or even summarizes them in any one specific field, I had to make such an attempt myself. This attempt, I thought, would also serve my readers by offering them the possibility of sharing with me a global view of the problem of destructiveness rather than a view taken from the standpoint of a single discipline.
There are, it is clear, many pitfalls in such an attempt. Obviously, I could not acquire competence in all these fields—least of all, the one in which I started out with little knowledge: the neurosciences." —Preface
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