Hello friends, enemies, strangers, and familiar strangers...
I've been musing a little today about sex's role in everyday life. Freud pretty much ascribed sex as the base motive for all the actions of conscious life. This is the impression that I've been given from reading on Freud, but not reading Freud's actual work. A sort of interpretation of interpretations, if you will.
Well, sexual impulsiveness, and all other ID traits ( i.e. Aggression), are traits that reside in the "unconscious". So before we engage in conscious life these impulses are formed by childhood experiences.
Now I ask this question, is philosophy driven by sexual impulse? Sure there is philosophy of eroticism, even hedonism as a philosophy to live by, but those are secondary to sexual impulse. The way I see it is that when one has a sexual impulse that arises as a sexual act, such as masturbation, reflection is absent. Then, after the act is in past tense, reflection can occur. There certainly can be contemplation prior to sex, but as the act is occurring, if one is being reflective on the sexual nature of the act; then aren't they being more philosophical than sexual?
I don't think it is in the nature of sex to want any understanding; for sexual acts are purely irrational in the light of human rationality. Sex is a drive. Hunger is a drive. Social Status is a drive. What about those drives that are completely irrelevant to all of those? Why does one suffer to make art? Is understanding a drive in itself? What makes us want to understand sex, hunger, and social relations? Do we want to understand them so we can obtain them? Is that what curiosity is? Is this why we explore and discover?
I don't think that knowing how the reproductive system works biologically will get the ladies flocking toward you. If it did then why are "nerds" always portrayed as the social outcasts? Shouldn't they be able to use their vast knowledge of biology to sway ladies into sleeping with them? Because they know how the vulva functions at the molecular level?
I think that I should leave it at that. Let me know your thoughts.
