Aggression and Violence, Not Only for The Worst

By definition, psychology, “aggression is any tendency to, by any means and in any form, to cause harm to an individual, group or what represents them.” Physical abuse is the most apparent aggressive behavior. Of course, no society can agree to give free rein to some forms of aggression.

Where does human aggression?

The history of psychoanalysis from Freud is a story (among others) the gradual discovery of the importance of aggression in human behavior.Freud described two instincts, two basic drives: the life instinct, which drives us to make every effort to stay alive, and the death drive, especially for energy boost to self-destruction of human beings. Freud developed the idea that there is a fundamental need in each of destruction, which is becoming aggressive when it turns against others.Aggression is a human instinct that can be expressed in many ways.

The myriad faces of aggression

The most visible form of aggression is physical violence. Is a more discreet verbal abuse, which can also be just as destructive. Forms more insidious, more tenuous, aggression expressed through irony, humiliation, offensive jokes, some form of humor. It can also hide behind the facade of certain types of social authorities that give a person power over another. This aggression occurs daily in the labor relations in trade between a citizen and a state representative example. So there are open forms of aggression and diverted more events.

Frustration as another spring aggression

Aggression is a behavioral reaction to the aggression suffered, especially since social barriers prevent us from expressing our aggression. If Odette is seen daily humiliated by his supervisor, and is not able to react (social conventions require), it may develop a sense of anger and frustration generating an aggressive turn, it could be discharged on her husband or her children on returning in the evening at home. Psychologists in the 1960s (Dollard, Doob and Miller) have also portrayed as aggressive reactions to frustration. For them, aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration, and conversely, the existence of frustration always leads to a form of aggression.

When some aggression back against themselves

In other situations, aggression can not find a socially acceptable form of expression. In this case, the frail tend to return the aggression against themselves. So it is with some forms of suicidal behavior, mutilation (eg, rending the forearm), risk behaviors, certain types of addiction. More discreetly, can sometimes be hypothesized that the development of certain diseases, is linked with a return of aggression against the self.

Aggression is also a form of life drive

A “drive” is what we “push” to live, to move forward. This is our “engine” inside, which boosts our daily lives, from our birth to our death.Some psychologists distinguish destructive violence, aggression positively, one that can move forward, to keep his place in society. This healthy aggressiveness allows us to be recognized to exist, to assert themselves. It is also one that allows the infant to scream loud enough for her parents meet their needs is one that helps a shy person out of shyness or a depressed person to regain its momentum.Aggressiveness is negative, as explained well Serge Ginger, psychologist, psychotherapist, a form of “slippage,” “when, instead of fighting for my own legitimate space of existence, I seek to invade the place of others ! ”In other words, when the affirmation of what I am, through domination or violence. Want in first place in the classroom or in a business requires a healthy aggression. It becomes a negative if aggressive driving take place can not be at the expense of others, by humiliating the other.