Word: greylag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aggression into Love. Is there a way out of this dilemma? Lorenz finds it in an animal capacity called "redirected activity." In the case of the greylag goose, redirection works like this: the same movements the goose makes when it attacks an enemy it makes with only slight variation when it professes love for its lifelong mate. The movements are the same, the feeling is totally altered. What has intervened, in the author's opinion, is an instinctual process analogous to the one Freud calls sublimation. Animal rage has been sublimated into social feeling, aggression has been transformed into...
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