![]() The third is our expectations, our predictions of the outcomes of our behavioral possibilities. The second is our behavior dispositions, or our tendency to behave in a particular way in this perceived situation. One is the perceived situation calling for some kind of behavior. Perception eventuates in behavior depending on three other aspects of the psychological field. Conflict begins in the very act of our perception. We are no passive victims of external powers rather than being a dart board for stimuli, we are their active combatant. Through this field orientation, perception is an active balancing between our reaching out to transform reality within our perspective and the powers of reality to manifest themselves. We are seen individually as this dynamic psychological field of dispositions and powers, and humanity collectively appears as a dialectical balance of these individual fields. It is dynamic and holistic, involving a continuous spread through psychological space of energy or potentiality that is the seat of psychological forces. As such, it is a self-contained, psycho-philosophical analysis, focusing on the nature of a field perspective perception expectations and behavior motivations intentionality the self, will, and freedom and, finally, intentional humanism as the ethical basis for this understanding.įield is the fundamental orienting concept for me. My first volume, The Dynamic Psychological Field, was concerned wholly with the psychological roots of conflict and the philosophical framework. This is the third volume of Understanding Conflict and War, my attempt to understand fundamentally conflict, violence, and war. So peace brings warre and warre brings peace. Warre brings spoile, and spoile povertie, Pride breeds quarrell, and quarrell brings warre: Peace makes plentie, plentie makes pride, For this and tolerating my odd writing schedule, my loving thanks. Opposition, Determinism, Inevitability, and ConflictĪgain, the clarity wrung from my prose by the thorough editing of my wife, Grace, must be acknowledged. CONFLICT IN PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVEĬhapter 9. Conflict as a Process and the Conflict Helix Cross-Pressures, Overpopulation, Anomie, and ConflictĬhapter 8. Same and Other Similarity and DifferenceĬhapter 7. Dahrendorf's Class and Class ConflictĬhapter 6. ![]() Marxism, Class Conflict, and the Conflict Helixĥ.2. CONFLICT IN SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVEĬhapter 5. Misperception, Cognitive Dissonance, Righteousness, and Conflict Frustration, Deprivation, Aggression, and the Conflict HelixĬhapter 4. The Psychological Field of AggressionĬhapter 3. CONFLICT IN PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVEĬhapter 2. ![]() The Conflict Helix: Principles and Practices.Īrticle: "Understanding Factor Analysis" (entire)Ĭonflict In Perspective By R.J. ![]() 1: The Dynamic Psychological Field (entire) ![]()
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