The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.

Intro -- 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 Experiments -- The 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 Crowding -- Aggression 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 Societies -- System 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 Aggression -- 10. 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 -- 11. Malignant Aggression: Cruelty and Destructiveness -- Apparent Destructiveness -- Spontaneous Forms -- The Historical Record -- Vengeful Destructiveness -- Ecstatic Destructiveness -- The Worship of Destructiveness -- Kern, van Salomon: A Clinical Case of Destruction Idolatry -- The Destructive Character: Sadism -- Examples of Sexual Sadism/Masochism -- Joseph Stalin: A Clinical Case of Nonsexual Sadism -- The Nature of Sadism -- Conditions That Generate Sadism -- Heinrich Himmler: A Clinical Case of Anal-Hoarding Sadism -- 12. Malignant Aggression: Necrophilia -- The Traditional Concept -- The Necrophilous Character -- Necrophilic Dreams.

Unintended" Necrophilic Actions -- The Necrophilic's Language -- The Connection Between Necrophilia and the Worship of Technique -- Hypothesis on Incest and the Oedipus Complex -- The Relation of Freud's Life and Death Instincts to Biophilia and Necrophilia -- Clinical/Methodological Principles -- 13. Malignant Aggression: Adolf Hitler, a Clinical Case of Necrophilia -- Preliminary Remarks -- Hitler's Parentage and Early Years -- Klara Hitler -- Alois Hitler -- From Infancy to Age 6 (1889-1895) -- Childhood Ages 6 to 11 (1895-1900) -- Preadolescence and Adolescence: Ages 11 to 17 (1900-1906) -- Vienna (1907-1913) -- Munich -- A Comment on Methodology -- Hitler's Destructiveness -- Repression of Destructiveness -- Other Aspects of Hitler's Personality -- Relations to Women -- Gifts and Talents -- Veneer -- Defects of Will and Realism -- Epilogue: On the Ambiguity of Hope -- Appendix: Freud's Theory of Aggressiveness and Destructiveness -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A Biography of Erich Fromm -- Copyright.

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