Fromm's Psychoanalytical Analysis of Aggression Flashcards
Define Necrofilia
The attraction to what is dead/lifeless/decaying/purely mechanical.
This is the increasing thought, Fromm thinks, of the “cybernetic industrial societ”
What does Fromm say about defeating the love of Death?
Genuine freedom and independence and mobilizing the LOVE OF LIFE.
What are the 2 Categories of Aggression?
Benign & Malignant Aggression
What is Benign Aggression
“built-in” defensive strategy against threats to vital interests. CONSTRUCTIVE not destructive
What is Malignant Aggression
biologically non-adaptive. Harmful, destructive and cruel.
What are some forms of Benign Aggression?
Accidental, Playful, self-assertion, male, defensive, instrumental
What is instrumental Aggression?
use of aggression as an instrument to obtain object of necessity or desire. Aim isn’t destructive.
Hyperaggression theory
that man, above all other animals, have a tendency to act aggressively and violently.
This is being called into q’s - jane Goodall
How has Jane Goodall’s research contributed in our understanding of aggression in humans?
that violent destructive behaviour (malignant aggression) is not rare in animals. Not a human-specifc trait.
Anthropaternalism
a habit of assuming that we do understand the mind of other species.
What is Fromm’s view of Male aggression?
sees the negative circumstances as social aberrations, and assumes a perspective that this is not (or was not) fundamentally to cause damage. would be destructive to the male-female bond.
