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The Role of Aggressiveness in the Work of John Bowlby

  • This article attempts to integrate Bowlby’s various contributions to the subject of ag-gressiveness. His early views, the role of aggressiveness in attachment theory and his more recent work on violence in the family are reported. In both his early and his later work Bowlby distinguishes between a primary form of aggressiveness which is reactive to frustration – in particular to separation – and a secondary form which arises from the first as a result of adverse parental reactions. His more recent work stresses the impor-tance of the displacement of parental hostility on to the children – due to role reversal – in eliciting dysfunctional anger in children. It is suggested that this component was al-ready implicit in much of Bowlby’s previous work on separation. It is further suggested that J.P. Scott’s model of agonistic behaviour is relevant in these situations.

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Author:Marco Bacciagaluppi
Parent Title (English):Free Associations, London Vol. 16 (1989), pp. 123-134.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1989
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:PDF-file to download
IdNo:Bacciagaluppi_M_1989c
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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