# Konrad Lorenz **Domain:** Ethology and aggression **Doc Type:** Developed Person Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Konrad Lorenz** (1903–1989) was an Austrian ethologist whose *On Aggression* proposed an influential instinct-and-discharge model of aggression. He treated ritualized combat and international sport as possible channels for aggressive motivation. ## Significance and dispute Lorenz belongs in the substitution canon because he made the policy logic explicit: redirect dangerous aggression into bounded competition. His hydraulic account is not settled science. Later work distinguishes types, contexts, learning, institutions, and planned from reactive violence, so the collection uses Lorenz as an intellectual source rather than a final biological model. ## Sources - Konrad Lorenz, *On Aggression* (1963; English 1966) - R. J. Rummel, [Aggression and the Conflict Helix](https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/CIP.CHAP2.HTM) ## Routes [[wiki/Moral Equivalent of War|Moral Equivalent of War]] · [[wiki/Reactive vs. Proactive Aggression|Reactive vs. Proactive Aggression]] · [[wiki/Catharsis vs. Structuration|Catharsis vs. Structuration]]