- Author
- Dombrowsky, W. R.
- Title
- Angstlust vor Feuer. [Danger-Pleasure of Fire.]
- Coporate
- Karlsruhe Univ., West Germany
- Journal
- VFDB, 23-27, January 1993
- Keywords
- arson | children | psychological effects | human behavior
- Identifiers
- teenagers
- Abstract
- ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH This report is about the social-psychological, criminological and social-anthropological aspects of arson by children and teenager. The main center of interest is the collective fire phantasies, that symbolises fire as a natural and cult power and which accompanies the cooperation of human evolution and domestication from the beginning. The main thesis is, that deviate behavior of using fire can be overcome, if it is possible to separate psychic conflicts between selfcontrol and wildness, interior nature and nature control. Which important role such conflicts bring into play especially concerning arson, is provided by empiric results, demographic figures and criminological analysis.