ABSTRACT

The French army was Napoleon's second home. His first home, from 1769 to 1778, was a Corsican family and town. There were laid down the deeper layers of his affective life. Several values were variables over time in individual soldiers and in the French army as a whole. For nearly twenty-five years Irving Alexander, a psychologist a historian, have discussed the origin of this urge and habit, or script. However, throughout his life Napoleon was a restless genius, always aggressively moving on and changing. Other than the habit of command and restless genius, it is difficult to make any basic generalization about him that will fit the detailed data for any length of time. It is difficult to discern how much of the ambience of Corsican society the child Napoleon absorbed into his being. Unthinking acceptance of violence as a natural, normal attribute of society.