ABSTRACT

The concept of aggression is used interchangeably with the notion of anger or destructiveness, and what is emphasized is that the healthy human personality should not be too angry. Spokesmen for the "goodness camp" produce evidence of instances in which aggression is destructive of human relationships and should be changed to positive feelings and love. The normal, mature human being is seen largely in positive terms-as loving, caring, relating, and able to enter into warm and cooperative relationships with other human beings, and so on. In their hope for a more peaceful world, people have sought to emphasize the positive qualities of love, goodness, tolerance, responsibility, mutuality-qualities that appear to be as far away as possible from any destructive aggression. Spokesmen for natural or creative aggression produce evidence to show that an improved refining of aggression frees many emotionally sick people.