Aggressive and Erotic Tendencies in Army Life
Title | Aggressive and Erotic Tendencies in Army Life |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1946 |
Authors | Elkin, Henry |
Journal | American Journal of Sociology |
Volume | 51 |
Issue | 5 |
Pagination | 408-413 |
Date Published | 03/1946 |
Abstract | Military life required the soldier to alter his values and self-image and imposed new restraints and occasions for release. The soldier felt depreciated by the G.I. image and Army restraints and asserted himself by negativism, as in "griping," and by aggression against foreigners as scapegoats. Military life also stimulated the release of tensions repressed from childhood. Drinking profanity, and concern with sex relieved the anxieties created by the ideal of virility. Undifferentiated and homosexual erotic tendencies revealed by speech and behavior must find socially approved release. Hence the soldier's egocentric disposition to women as means of gratifying self-respect and primitive sensual impulses. |
URL | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2771104 |
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