Word: storr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Storr admitted that war might be a "regulating device for reducing population," but he rejected the "utopian hope" that cruelty can be eliminated by remodeling society and resolving the population problem, since his explanation of man's innate paranoid tendiencies traces back to infantile tendencies traces back to infantile development...
Apart his cruelty, man is also unique among the primates for his slow rate of development, which keeps him relatively helpless for almost a quarter of his life. According to Storr, the human infant cannot respond adequately to its environment, resulting in impotent rage and fear. Analysts refer to this earliest stage of emotional childhood as the paranoid-schizoid position...
...Storr summed up by stating that there is a critical transition between the "vegetative life of the fetus and the independent life of the infant, and consistent mothering is required to pass it unscarred...
...Storr, in an interview, said he developed an interest in an innate paranoid state simply because he was curious "as to why human beings treated each other so cruelly." Although he was trained as a psychoanalyst in the school of Carl Jung, he suscribes to theories of Melanie Klein, i.e. that paranoid tendency arises early in infantile development...
...Storr has participated frequently in British television and radio programs, and does journalistic work for the literary magazine "Book World." He has written three books: The Integrity of the Personality, Sexual Deviation, and Human Aggression. Now visiting American for the first time, Dr. Storr is currently teaching a course entitled "Human Aggression" at Harvard University...