aggression is redirected out ward so that it serves as the basis for aggression against others instead of destructing the self. So he indicated that through other mechanisms like displacement, the energy of Thantos i.e. He thus held that all human behaviour including aggressive behaviour stems from the complex interaction between the instinct of Eros and Thantos and the constant tension between them.įreud held that the death instinct is unrestrained and results in self destruction. Thus Freud with experience and analysis gradually came to adopt the nature of human aggression, and proposed a second major instinct named the Thantos, the force of death or destruction whose energy in directed towards the destruction or termination of life, towards hatred, anger and violence and towards all sorts of aggressive feelings, actions, dealings and behaviours. After long doubts and vacillations we have decided to assume the existence of only two basic urges Eros or the Life instinct and Thantos or the Destructive instinct. Thus revising his earlier view on instincts he wrote. Thus, it was neither an automatic nor an inevitable part of life.īut in course of psychoanalysis and particularly after the second world war Freud gradually came to know the presence of two basic urges such as Eros and Thantos or life instinct and death instinct instead of one instinct (Life instinct) held earlier. In this back ground aggression was considered simply as a reaction to the blocking of libidinal impulses. In his earlier writings, Freud was of view that all human behaviour originates either directly or indirectly from ‘EROS’, the life instinct, which helps in reproduction of life. The instinct theory of aggression was advanced by Sigmund Freud (1927) the great psychoanalyst of yester years. This article throws light upon the top three theories of aggression.
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