Dominieren versus ... :

Josh Waitzkin:

"Bonnie [his mother] explains that there are two basic ways of taming a wild horse. One is to tie it up and freak it out. Shake paper bags, rattle cans, drive it crazy until it submits to any noise. Make it endure the humiliation of being controlled by a rope and a pole. Once it is partially submissive, you tack the horse, get on top, spur it, show who is the boss - the horse fights, bucks, twists, turns, runs, but there is no escape. Finally the beast drops to its knees and submits to being domesticated. The horse goes through pain, rage, frustration, exhaustion, to near death ... then it finally yields. This is the method some like to call shock and awe.

Then there is the way of the horse whisperers. ... you guide the horse toward doing what you want to do because he wants to do it. You synchronize desires, speak the same language. You don't break the horse's spirit."

[Siehe auch: Eibl-Eibesfeldt über Dominanz und Unterwerfung, The Reptilian Way of Life]