Anna Freud, exploring the aggressive drive, came to the conclusion that the libido and aggression are one and the same source - the unconscious man, and are developing the same laws.Stages of development of aggressive impulses - the same as in the development of libidinal impulses, and have similar protective mechanisms, asare closely linked.But the aggressive drive has some kind of protective mechanisms: the delegation and identification with the aggressor.
an example of working with children Anna Freud is considering several options for the formation of psychological defense - identification with the aggressor:
1) A child may be identified with the aggressive behavior of a man whom he fears.In this case, the identification - likening it to another person through his facial expressions, actions, emotions image.For example, a child who, according to teachers' building faces "during the lessons, just repeating his facial expressions that became apparent from the psychoanalyst.
2) In order to overcome the fear of children can come up with ways to protect yourself from it, repeating the illusory action potential aggressor.The girl who was afraid of ghosts, which she believed were in a dark corridor, in order to overcome this space took him much waving his arms like a ghost could do.In such situations, the identification - a role reversal, when the child gets up in the frightening position of the object itself becomes the aggressor.
3) Often, children are not identified with the external object, and the force of his aggression.Faced with the fist gym teacher, the student came to school the next day with different kinds of weapons, thatattempted to join his power, strength, masculinity.In fact, the teacher did not show aggression, he did not seek to punish the child, and the baby was manifested not so much aggression as a way to protect against all possible aggressive actions of powerful men.In such situations, the identification - it is a manifestation of the emerging superego of the child, when the student does not show aggression, and finds a way to prevent it in the future, a way of protection.Apart from acquiring weapons of such a child can begin to engage in sports, increasing their muscular strength.
4) active games, children often portray the aggressors, training their attraction, but to them not to take any aggressive action on the part of adults or peers.The identification of an aggressive game - a kind of training an aggressive drive when the inner aggressor can take the form of a warrior, a monster or a terminator.
Identification with the aggressor - it is a normal process control his impulses, which can be trained with the help of fantasy, games, sports.The asocial environment children use their aggression to identify with a group of other aggressors to be a group of "their" part of an overall aggressive force.The identification takes place in the family of the child with significant others, with their qualities of character, ie,identification of the person - is the process of development of the child, communion with others, regardless of whether, with what is happening identification attraction: aggressive or libidinal.
strength of aggressive drives increases as it is forbidden until the child does not know how to manage it, do not know his strength and power.Violent offender can become as a child, which is strictly forbidden to show aggression, and the one who showed uncontrollably and constantly.Forensic identification, iedefinition of criminal fingerprints, voice or other characteristics of the aggregate, it only stops, but does not solve the problem of its aggression.Psycho-pedagogical work with internal aggressor who always "eager" to express themselves, should be carried out from early childhood, training drive, controlling it and managing it.
