Gobernanza de recursos Naturales y Minerales
1. Nuestro contexto: El reto de vivir en armonía con la creación
Because Freud’s theory has been repeatedly reinterpreted, mis- interpreted, and vivisected beyond recognition, a brief discussion of his basic principles should precede any explanation of the Kap- pasinian theory of Emotional and Physical sexuality, in terms of psy- choanalysis. The length of this discussion requires that the reader temporarily view Freud’s principles as axioms, in order to simplify them and in order to speak directly to the issue of sexuality.
Sexuality, in Freud’s view, means much more than the sex act of the adult. His definition of sexuality is very broad, and should be understood as something that affects all aspects of human behav- ior. The Kappasinian theory also holds the view that sex is a pri- mary motivator of emotional response, and not limited to direct sexual feelings. Freud believed that the sex instinct is fully ex- pressed only in the infant. An infant expresses, experiences, and feels his sexuality in all the organs of his body. Freud’s term, the in- fant is polymorphous perverse. The contentment, peace, and hap- piness that are often obvious in the infant’s behavior, are an expression of total sexual feeling. Freud calls the infant’s total sex- ual feeling the Pleasure Principle.
The basic tenet of Freudian theory is that the pleasure principle is the expression of the erotic nature of every human being. Since this erotic quality is fully expressed only in the infant, the adult is al- ways striving to re-experience it. The subconscious mind forbids at- tainment of the fully erotic, in order to conform to the Reality
Principle. The Reality Principle directs Man’s attention away from
the polymorphous perverse goal of the Pleasure Principle and to- ward cultural and social organization. The imagined perfect love af- fair, the bliss one feels when with a lover, the poems, dramas, and works of art of modern civilization, are all products of Man’s effort
to return to the polymorphous perverse play that is fully experienced only during infancy.
Freud views the adult sex act in terms of genital organization. This means that the total polymorphous sexual feelings of the infant become organized and localized primarily into one set of organs (the genitals, rather than throughout all organs of the body). This theory seems logical, since it explains how genital sex first appears in ado- lescence. Freud believes that adult sexuality exists as a result of the Pleasure Principle’s antithesis, the Reality Principle. The Pleas- ure Principle is in conflict with the Reality Principle, and this conflict is the cause of repression. Whereas the pleasure principle repre- sents freedom and play, the Reality Principle represents calculation and work.
Man, through a dialectical process, advances or creates his his- tory through denial or repression of the pleasure principle. He or- ganizes and builds a culture and becomes a social animal (Reality Principle), as opposed to being a natural or primitive animal (Plea- sure Principle). It becomes evident that Man’s genital sexuality has a specific purpose: propagation of the race and the building of cul- ture. Although propagation may appear to be natural, and thus in ac- cord with the Pleasure Principle, it is actually in opposition to it, and is related to the Reality Principle because of its consequence of so- cial organization. The institution of marriage, the organization of work, and the family structure, are all social, as opposed to natural, phenomena. In addition, they are not biological necessities. Bio- logical necessity is Man’s instinctual drive to reproduce and propa- gate his own race. It is the life force that is responsible for continuation of the species.
The hypothesis presented here is that the Freudian theory and the Kappasinian theory correlate, in that Emotional sexuality is an expressing of the Pleasure Principle and Physical sexuality is an ex- pression of the Reality Principle.
Physical sexuality is the result of Man’s lack of control of the sex drive, which, obviously, contributes, to propagation of the human race. As pointed out earlier, Freud does not view human propaga- tion as part of the essence of the human being, but merely as a re- quirement of the Reality Principle. The concept of Physical sexuality is erotic and genital in character, the glorification of orgasm, the so- lution to all social and bodily ailments through genital organization.
The tendency of the Physically sexual individual is to express love through genital sex, and to view genital sex as an important and often-experienced part of love. Sexual rejection is the Physical’s greatest fear; and any inference he takes of being rejected, will cause him to be emotionally depressed. His depression is his re- action to his fear of sexual rejection. The Physically sexual person protects his emotions, by placing his physical body (sexual feeling) in front of his emotions. His physical body acts as a radar or warn- ing system, which allows him to hide his emotions before they can be affected. He is dependent and must feel that he possesses his partner. For him, genital sex becomes subconsciously synonymous with being loved by Mother and Father and being accepted. He usu- ally marries early (thus assured of frequent genital sex), desires to have children (propagation), and is comfortable in the family envi- ronment (social organization). The central point here is that Physi- cal sexuality has many of the same goals common to Freud’s description of adult sex or genital organization, the dialectical process, whereby Man denies or represses the Pleasure Principle, in order to avoid conflict with the Reality Principle.
On the other hand, it is logical for the concept of Emotional sex- uality to be correlated with the concept of polymorphous perverse in- fantile sex, play in the general sense, and narcissism, all of which are ways to express the Pleasure Principle. An explanation of Emo- tional sexuality will show how this correlation is justified.
For the Emotionally sexual individual, sex is in the mind. He is sexually stimulated first by his own imagination and visual voyeurism. The extreme Emotionally sexual personality is always searching for an emotional gratification that he is not able to receive from physical sex. He seeks a return to the repressed bliss of child- hood.
The adult has localized his sex in the genitals (Physical sexual- ity), and he can no longer completely duplicate the polymorphous sexual feelings experienced in infancy. Although the experience of infant sexuality is recorded in the subconscious mind, it can find only partial conscious expression because of the conflict between the Pleasure Principle and the Reality Principle. Emotional sexuality is the desire to return to the experience of sex as complete satisfac- tion of the entire body, the polymorphous play of the infant. In the adult sex act, forepleasure is the preliminary play with all parts of the body. The Emotionally sexual tendency emphasizes generalized
sex, rather than genital orgasm. Therefore, foreplay represents to the Emotional sexual a perpetuation of the pure polymorphous per- verse play of infantile sexuality. This is completely experienced only in infancy, which accounts for the Kappasinian description of the Emotionally sexual person as always looking for something he can- not find. In other words, this type of person cannot find peace be- cause the peace of childhood (Pleasure Principle) is denied by the dictates of reality (Reality Principle) in adulthood.
Both theories contain the idea that there are two forces that con- stitute human emotional relationships, and that these forces are found in every person, to one degree or another. Both theories are based on the idea that these two forces are in opposition to each other, yet strive for unity. Whereas Freud’s theories effectively dealt with problems of the early and middle 1900s, the Kappasinian the- ory of behavior has been developed with the problems of the sec- ond half of the twentieth century in mind. A person’s sexual behavior is predicated on his basic human behavior, and both are affected by the changing times.