Survival Instincts Tied to Phantasy,

System Administrator - 2024-01-19 08:43 - (0 Reads)

Phantasy is an old spelling for fantasy and it is used here in an attempt to draw a new distinction between fantasy from deliberate imaginative engagement with creativity and a fantasy that is rooted in a phantom belief within the individuals and groups using dominent logics and individual mindsets concerning self conception to bind the phantasy from within the perceivers.

We can take the phantom limb problem, suffered by amputees, where when we as humans loose a limb yet believe and feel that we are continuing to feel pain from the limb. In the case of persona bound self conception that are derived using personal pronouns we can witness and personally feel the devistation of having our job made redundent, although we individually may feel like we have lost something significent of our inner identity in fact the job we were doing such as that of a cooper making barrels is what is obsolete.

It is the unconsious and conscious binding to such phantasy that underpines Psychoanalysis where the persona believes self preservation and survival instincts are bound to an inner reality that is in fact a phantasy.

The goal here is to not deny the real pain and natural responses that are caused by such misperceptions it is instead to deal with the underlyinig self coception structure that causes the self conception to defend the phantasy.

When fight, flight, freeze responses are triggered our capacity to process data, information and knowledge is self limited by individual somatic responses.

We have everyday examples of people feeling real hurt because they are not encouraged to use a name they want to use in society for their identity and if we think about the issue of phantasy we can easilly imagine the some others may imagine that their own inner identity is threatened by the use of the new names. Some hetro sexual married couples imagine the institution of their own marriage is threatened and undermined by allowing a wider gender recognition. Bishops call for the arrest of a Pope who wants to offer sanctification to the union between people who identify other than hetrosexual.

The phenomina of internalized naming commits the self identity to states of mind that may not survive the natural deontic disabuse caused by emergent knowledge.

The issue is not that these states of mind can be combated by arugument alone as the root of the pain is in the misconception caused by a conflated self conception, when it is fused with a naming convention bounded by time on earth.

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