tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298132841741397171.post4851427879294057515..comments2023-03-25T19:47:25.013-07:00Comments on YouthRightsRadical: The Origin of PedophilesYouthRightsRadicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08450913771924434721noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298132841741397171.post-70275368456682978922022-05-18T23:57:34.125-07:002022-05-18T23:57:34.125-07:00The origin is probably something in early childhoo...The origin is probably something in early childhood development. According to psychoanalytic research, other sexual orientations and paraphilias usually have their origins in infancy and are connected to theories of coitus, choice of first love-object, and experiences trying to find out about sex or babies. A boy will grow up cishet if he primarily orients to his mother in childhood and comes to identify with his father and seek out mother-substitutes. However, he might become gay if he never gives up his mother as idealised love-object, or if he imagines too strongly in infancy that his mother has a penis (and makes the penis a condition of his love-objects), or if he has a primary attachment to his father or to a brother. Someone develops a foot-fetish or boot-fetish based apparently on trying to look up skirts and also on the maternal penis issue (the foot or shoe is imagined to be the substitute phallus seen when looking up skirts). A person becomes sadomasochistic if their early theory of coitus was that sex is a violent act committed by the father against the mother; this might happen if they observe actual rape, or if they misinterpret observations of sex among humans or animals (for instance, interpreting moans as screams). Infantile libido is polymorphically perverse and there is no sense of age, gender or species, but there appears to be little knowledge of penetrative sex or ejaculation (which is biologically possible), so early sexuality gets invested in the available zones and processes such as sucking at the breast, pissing, shitting, exhibitionism, stimulation of the skin and muscles, closeness, etc. Specific phantasies (unconscious or conscious image-stories similar to dreams) develop around these functions, which often also get tied-up with answers to the question about where babies come from. There's mention in Freud's work of Leonardo da Vinci having romantic feelings towards youths and boys, though he is discussed as "a homosexual" and not "a pedophile". According to Freud, da Vinci had a strong mother-attachment and also did something called "narcissistic object-choice", i.e. he looked for love-objects who resembled himself or parts of himself. The youths and boys thus stood for younger versions of himself, still inside the idealised maternal relation. Lacanians generally assume pedophiles mostly belong to the so-called perverse personality-type. The main traits of this type is that people belonging to it identify themselves with the love-object of "the Other" (initially the parent), and use an unconscious mechanism known as "disavowal", in which they simultaneously affirm and deny some traumatic fact (cis women not having a penis, their own penis being removable, or their not possessing omnipotence for example). The "perverse symptom" usually involves a compromise formation which encodes primary-process (metaphorical, symbolic) versions of both the affirmation and denial. For example, a flasher both "has the phallus" (an impressive, visible penis which produces effects such as shock) and "does not have the phallus" (does not create an actual sexual relation).<br /><br />I'd speculate there's probably several sources of pedophilia. These might include flight from both parents as love-objects, seeking love-objects resembling a former (possibly idealised) version of the self, seeking to provide to other children based on whatever one remembers of early childhood phantasies, seeking to occupy the position of a parent or other adult (who might be a pedophile, a child molester, or metaphorically sexualised in memory), fixation on siblings, drives in other registers which are misremembered as sexual after puberty, being identified as a child oneself, desires to reverse sadistic or active/passive relationships in one's own childhood, projected desires to usurp parents in childhood, etc. IMO there's a misunderstanding involved - a confusion of children's libido in the broad sense with adult genital libido. That's harmless at the level of fantasy, but dangerous if it leads to misreading the actions of actual children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298132841741397171.post-43789904906780329452015-06-10T17:57:57.757-07:002015-06-10T17:57:57.757-07:00And here you are, making finding that origin harde...And here you are, making finding that origin harder. How does it feel to be responsible for perpetuating the very thing you despise? YouthRightsRadicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08450913771924434721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8298132841741397171.post-75226382509055129962015-06-10T17:16:10.339-07:002015-06-10T17:16:10.339-07:00If we find the origin then we will remove it. Ther...If we find the origin then we will remove it. There is no good reason to have them in society. Hopefully we can abort them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com