All babies are perverse until they're not

According to Freud they are. I'd have to disagree. Just because your mother is the one that carries the food you need when you're a baby doesn't make you a perverse creature.

This week we looked at all things psychological and how our bodies are controlled by our conscious and subsoncious minds.

"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. - Sigmund Freud"

Oh dear Freud. I can hardly believe everything this man says, considering he smoked long filthy cigars even after he got jaw cancer.

All this theorising came about because Freud and an associate started listening to middle class, Jewish women who were experience pain and had no physiological reason for it occuring. Hats off for being the first doctor to listen to women of that time.

From this research sprung the notion of hysteria; neurological weakness that manifests itself as physical pain.

This psychich pain lodges itself in the physical realm, hiding the relation to the real problem.

Instead of fixing the physical, Freud wanted to attack the real problem, the mind being overloaded. He aimed to do this by getting the women to talk the problems out of themselves on the all too famous divan. The illness is holes in your ability to cope, holes in your memory. By speaking, you are filling these hole with language.

A perfect exmaple of physical pains/symptoms masking the real problem is in eating disorders. All you see is an extremely thin individual that needs to be told to eat more but after many years doctors have realised that this isnt the case at all. Bronte Cullis wrote a great book on it that is fairly freudian, its called "Bronte's Story"

A psychological problem causes the physical symptoms. Feeling of lack of worth, guilt, anger etc go along with eating. It is a form of schizophrenia in a way. There are constantly two minds talking at once inside your head, one pleading you to eat, one definitively saying you can't. The book tells a fascinatin tale of how Bronte finally quietened that negative voice but could never completely silence it through continual psychotherapy.

Back to Freud.

Through 'free association' you can say anything, relevant or irrelevant, because if you say only relevant comments you will be self sensoring your thoughts and potentially sensoring the real problem.

The Pleasure Principle- We act on what we want. Until it is deemed socially unacceptable by our parents, we'll do it, we'll steal, we'll grab, we'll snatch. Humans are merely hungry sexual beings that are after one of those things all of the time.

Essays on Sexuality- This is where the freaky baby quotes come in.

all female babies are born as incestuous lesbians and are taught/conditioned to act as a respectable member of society throughout their lifetime by parents/friends/anyone.

Controlling our orifaces is something i took for granted. I forgot that i ever couldn't use them in the way i could today. i thought that just naturally happened as you got older. Obviously through repitition, praise and punishment it did, but it was a learned behaviour and not innate.

The mind is supposed to be made up of the unconscious, conscious and the super ego. The super ego is the voice Bronte talks about in her book. It is an endlessly unsatisfied voice that controls behaviour. it causes guilt and blackmail. it controls physical behaviour, the more you give to it the more it will take from you. Sounds menacing!

Humans are also thought to be cut from one of two cloths. the neurotic pervert or the psychotics. there are a lot of perverts in the law apparently because they enjoy catching other people doing bad things. makes sense. shouldn't be dating a law student though. I just found out a bit too much about them.

Apparently we all have holes that we desperately try to manage so i might go and figure out what that acutally is and then desperately manage it.