Gentile, Douglas A. - In: Societies 3 (2013) 4, pp. 491-510
The concept that doing something to “vent” aggression as a method of reducing aggressive feelings and behaviors, such … the modern usage of the aggression catharsis hypothesis. It is argued that there are four primary flaws with the catharsis … hypothesis. First, the metaphor underlying Freud, Breuer, and Lorenz’s conception of aggression is flawed. Aggression is not a …