{"id":2644,"date":"2025-12-16T10:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-12-aggression-and-intentionality\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:09:49","slug":"chapter-12-aggression-and-intentionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-12-aggression-and-intentionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 12: Aggression and Intentionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The chapter situates sexuality within Gestalt theory as a need for contact and exchange\u2014linked to excitement and pleasure\u2014whose orientation arises from intentionality co-created with the environment. Need and intentionality develop together as field phenomena: we internalize not neutral objects but lived experiences that steer action. Aggression is defined as a bodily motor process\u2014the organism\u2019s movement to take, refuse, or exchange\u2014expressed through respiratory, oral, dental, anal, and genital modalities. Intentionality gives this movement its meaning and yields responsibility for the act. When the original, contact-based intentionality feels dangerous, a \u201csubstitute\u201d intentionality emerges; behavior then follows this secondary compass, generating chronic dissatisfaction or refusal and looping unfinished gestalts. By contrast, when aggression serves the original intentionality, behavior is integrated: the person feels present, recognized, and able to accept either fulfillment or a clear \u201cno.\u201d The text clarifies contact boundaries as emergent from meeting intentionalities (illustrated by lions and antelopes maintaining distance) and shows how introjects and interruptions shape defensive forms of aggression. Clinically, the task is to recognize the aggression a person can currently mobilize, re-contact the underlying intentionality, and support more fitting forms of force. 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