(SP) Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 this is stolen verbatim from haven for the human amoeba recent post(i actually went there!) A question for all, specially not born asexuals: Introverts interiorize. By interiorizing, one thing which was meant to be acted externally is transformed into a phenomena of thought, or, on an even deeper level, on totally different things which influence or become the character of this introvert individual. I don't like the equalitarian idea that if a person doesn't live a certain thing, then he must live it internally - I don't think this is necessary - but this suggestion exists. So, a suggestion that arises is: asexuality is a sexuality interiorized. No: it's not about subliming, etc - it's about a supposedly necessary event that if not lived may be converted into something else, like vapor into water, or ice, or an asexual's character. thoughts? Link to post Share on other sites
dabishop Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Does there have to be a one-to-one correlation between a basic impulse and the thing it's expressed as, in a sublimated form? Nah. Trying to figure out how sublimation happens and the form it takes (e.g. raw greed --> career ambition) is where psychologists make their bread and butter, and they ain't figured it out yet. Anything I've ever remotely recognized as a sexual impulse (and there've been mighty few) tended to be so wee and insignificant that it couldn't power a hamster wheel, much less inspire and drive the creation of something like Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Besides, being an introvert can have nothing to do with sex; I believe in a much broader spectrum of shyness, and sexual shyness only exists to the limit that a person has a sex drive in the first place. Possible slogan: "I'm not sublimating, I just forgot!" Link to post Share on other sites
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