Aggression: destructive impulse or life force

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  • Louise Fréchette

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https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2025-35-121

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aggression, destruction, attunement, transformation, bioenergetic strategies

摘要

The first part of this article retraces the evolution of the concept of aggression from the Freudian understanding of that primary impulse to the contemporary analytical authors, as well as to the Reichian and the Lowenian view of it. In a second part, it presents how today’s bioenergetic therapists conceptualize the aggressive impulse and how they work with it in their clinical practice, so that they can help their patients transform what can be a destructive force into a life force sustaining self-expression and self-actualization.

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Louise Fréchette

Louise Fréchette is a psychologist, a certified bioenergetic therapist and an IIBA Faculty member. She has been in private practice in Montreal since 1980, and since 1987 she has been doing bioenergetic training in various countries like Canada, the United States, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Brazil, Argentina, and New Zealand. She is the author of several articles in professional publications like the IIBA Clinical Journal and Le Corps et l’Analyse, a clinical journal published by the francophone Bioenergetic Societies. She is also the author of numerous documents for didactic purposes.
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Fréchette, L. (2025). Aggression: destructive impulse or life force. Bioenergetic Analysis, 35(1), 121–142. https://doi.org/10.30820/0743-4804-2025-35-121

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卷 35 编号 1 (2025)

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