Title:
EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN AGGRESSION: FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL ANALYSIS, FROMM'S NEOFREUDIAN PERSPECTIVE AND BANDURA'S SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY

Authors:
Associate Prof. Dr. Ayse Dilek OGRETIR OZCELIK

Volume - 2 Issue - 1, Pages - 2151-2164

Abstract:
Freud has always used his growing psychoanalytic understanding to address world events such as World War I as well as human psychology. The unbelievable death toll between 1914 to 1918 led Freud to attempt for the explanation and understanding of violence, conflict and destruction. He has placed greater importance to human aggression. Freud has revised many key aspects of his theory about aggression. He has dropped the idea of self-preservation drive and instead focuses on his new dual classification of two instinctual theories in both of which aggression played a significant part. He continued to develop his theory toward a more sophisticated picture of psychoanalytic view of human aggression. This paper aims to investigate the causes of aggression by probing into two different perspectives: Psychoanalysis and neo-Freudian analysis as well as social learning theory. This article specifically focuses on postulating psychoanalytic spectrum of aggression from Freudian and neo-Freudian point of views. It also attempts to examine the differences and similarities between and within these perspectives in search for answer to the main question ``what are the causes of the human aggression?" In the first part of the paper, after the definition of aggression, it entails a close look to psychoanalytic approach and compare and contrast the psychoanalytic ideas within the paradigm. The second part focuses on neo-Freudian psycho-analysis of the aggression. The third section emphasizes Bandura's social learning theory. The last section gives a summary of all perspectives.

Cite this Article:

[OZCELIK, Ayse Dilek OGRETIR, Associate Prof. Dr. "EXPLANATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN AGGRESSION: FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL ANALYSIS, FROMM'S NEOFREUDIAN PERSPECTIVE AND BANDURA'S SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY." International Journal of Social Science & Economic Research 2.1 (2017): 2151-164.]