Sobre la agresión: el pretendido mal

· Siglo XXI
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Lorenz habla del instinto, no en general sino de uno que tienen en común los animales y el hombre: el instinto de la agresión. ¿Por qué y para qué luchan entre sí los animales de la misma especie, y por qué hacen otro tanto los hombres? ¿Hay efectivamente un impulso de autoaniquilamiento que obra en contra de todos los instintos conservadores de la vida? ¿Cuáles son las causas conducentes a la agresión humana que estamos viviendo y que amenaza a la humanidad con la ruina? ¿Puede el conocimiento de estas causas darnos poder para dirigir su acción? A la pregunta de si la naturaleza puede enseñarnos algo respecto a la agresión, el autor responde con venturoso optimismo.

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Konrad Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist whose specialty, the biological origins of social behavior, is of major interest to psychologists. Lorenz pioneered in the direct study of animal behavior and was the founder of modern ethology (the study of animals in their natural surroundings). He received the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1973 for his research on instinctive behavior patterns and on imprinting---the process through which an animal very early in life acquires a social bond, usually with its parents, that enables it to become attached to other members of its own species. His major book, "On Aggression" (1963), was attacked by many anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists, who maintained that Lorenz's claim that aggression is inborn means that it cannot be controlled. His supporters countered that Lorenz never stated that inborn traits could not be changed. Lorenz's work continues to play a key role in this contemporary version of the nature-nurture debate.

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