Erich Fromm is my favourite psychoanalyst and philosopher.
He has interesting views on necrophilia and sexual perversions.
Freedom is a basic concept in his work. By freedom he doesn't mean "state of no war" or "not being a prisoner".
Fromm believes freedom is an important aspect of human nature.
Humans have a choice to either embrace or escape their freedom. He says that embracing our freedom of will is the healthy way to go, whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts, including necrophilia.
The escape mechanisms that Fromm outlined are automaton conformity, authoritarianism, and destructiveness.
He has many other interesting ideas but I don't want to go into too much detail.
If you want you can read his work or watch interviews with him on YouTube if you don't feel like reading.
Basically he explains sexual fetishes as an individual's loss of freedom than fits different cases into the above categories.
Masochism and sadism are an extreme version of authoritarianism, he says.
Both feel compelled to play their separate roles, so that even the sadist, with all his apparent power over the masochist, is not free to choose his actions.
Necrophilia is a very special case in Erich Fromm's work. It fits the destructiveness group.
"Necrophiles - the lovers of death. They have the passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed, putrid, sickly; it is the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical. It is the passion "to tear apart living structures," he says.
I think this is exactly Little Boy Rot's case.
So basically Eric seperates people in two large groups with subdivisoins.
Biophales vs Necrophiles
Biophales are productive while necrophiles are destructive.
What do you think? Do you consider yourself a bio or a necro or somewhere in between?
He has other interesting views including why some people become biophales while others are develop in to extremely destructive necrophiles but I stop here; we shall cover the causes of necrophilia later on.
He has interesting views on necrophilia and sexual perversions.
Freedom is a basic concept in his work. By freedom he doesn't mean "state of no war" or "not being a prisoner".
Fromm believes freedom is an important aspect of human nature.
Humans have a choice to either embrace or escape their freedom. He says that embracing our freedom of will is the healthy way to go, whereas escaping freedom through the use of escape mechanisms was the root of psychological conflicts, including necrophilia.
The escape mechanisms that Fromm outlined are automaton conformity, authoritarianism, and destructiveness.
- Automaton conformity is changing one's ideal self to what is perceived as the preferred type of personality of society, losing one's true self. The use of automaton conformity displaces the burden of choice from the self to society.
- Authoritarianism is allowing oneself to be controlled by another. This removes the freedom of choice almost entirely by submitting that freedom to someone else.
- Destructiveness is any process which attempts to eliminate others or the world as a whole to escape freedom. Fromm said that "the destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it"
He has many other interesting ideas but I don't want to go into too much detail.
If you want you can read his work or watch interviews with him on YouTube if you don't feel like reading.
Basically he explains sexual fetishes as an individual's loss of freedom than fits different cases into the above categories.
Masochism and sadism are an extreme version of authoritarianism, he says.
Both feel compelled to play their separate roles, so that even the sadist, with all his apparent power over the masochist, is not free to choose his actions.
Necrophilia is a very special case in Erich Fromm's work. It fits the destructiveness group.
"Necrophiles - the lovers of death. They have the passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed, putrid, sickly; it is the passion to transform that which is alive into something unalive; to destroy for the sake of destruction; the exclusive interest in all that is purely mechanical. It is the passion "to tear apart living structures," he says.
I think this is exactly Little Boy Rot's case.
So basically Eric seperates people in two large groups with subdivisoins.
Biophales vs Necrophiles
Biophales are productive while necrophiles are destructive.
What do you think? Do you consider yourself a bio or a necro or somewhere in between?
He has other interesting views including why some people become biophales while others are develop in to extremely destructive necrophiles but I stop here; we shall cover the causes of necrophilia later on.
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