ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a selection from a book that is the joint effort of eight psychologists. It is perhaps the most tightly reasoned theoretical statement of the relationship between frustration and aggression that has thus far been written. The problem of aggression has many facets. The individual experiences difficulty in controlling his own temper and often sees others carrying on an unwitting struggle with their hostilities. He fears justified revenge or writhes at the blow or taunt that appears from an unexpected source. Aggression is always a consequence of frustration. More specifically the proposition is that the occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration and, contrariwise, that the existence of frustration always leads to some form of aggression.
