{"id":2647,"date":"2025-12-16T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-13-the-forms-of-aggression\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:13:40","slug":"chapter-13-the-forms-of-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-13-the-forms-of-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 13: The Forms of Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The chapter maps five embodied forms of aggression as contact functions that organize how we take from, refuse, or exchange with the environment\u2014each with distinct roles for sexuality and clinical work. Respiratory aggression is primary: the first appropriative act (breathing) that anchors trust in existence; when constrained, arousal, joy, anger, and orgasm diminish. Oral aggression transforms the world \u201cin me\u201d without prior deconstruction\u2014seen in expectations, complaints, and manipulations that recruit others to meet needs; in sexuality it appears as blaming a partner to solve one\u2019s difficulty. Dental aggression deconstructs novelty so it becomes assimilable; it supports creativity, differentiation, and the evolution of relationships, and its scarcity underlies many sexual dysfunctions and stale compromises. Anal aggression eliminates what is toxic or no longer needed; therapeutically it restores boundary power but, in excess, slides into humiliating \u201cnothing-izing\u201d and delinquent annihilation. Genital aggression names identification with genital feelings to take\/possess the other; it can be absent in erectile\/lubricatory issues or vaginismus, and must be carefully distinguished from broader sexuality. 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