The Dynamics of Human Aggression is the culmination of over thirty years of collaborative and independent work by its authors. Although the book is clearly a joint effort, significant components of the theoretical framework have been published over the past twenty-five years in books and papers by Meissner (there are thirty-six references to his work alone in the bibliography). In this compact volume, the authors propose a revolutionary revision in the psychoanalytic theory of motivation and aggression. They start with the conviction that drive theory, by removing agency and responsibility for actions from the person and ascribing it to an impersonal force pressing for discharge, fails to accurately explain human activity. They contend further that analysts who