Ramson's Theory on Sexuality, Aggression
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Ramson’s theory on Sexuality, Aggression, Religion and Personality. Dr. Variankaval Ramasamy Annadurai , MD; DPM; Consultant Psychiatrist, Mercy Hospital, Thillai nagar, Trichy, 620018, Tamilnadu, South India. 2 This book is dedicated to my father – Variankaval K. Ramasamy – Who infused me the idea of ‘thinking for the society’ into my personality sphere from early childhood. 3 S.No Contents 1. Sexulaity 1.1 Development of psycho social sexual identity 6 1.2 The ololuge 15 1.3 Deviation in the development of psychosexual identity 22 1.4 Sexual dysfunctions and aberration 26 1.5 Therapy 34 1.6 Incest 36 1.7 Initiation into sexual relationships. 41 1.8 Masturbation and castration. 43 1.9 The quest for the original father. 47 1.10 Human sacrifice / animal [ritual] sacrifice and symbolic sacrifice. 50 1.11 Oedipal anxiety of the father. 53 1.12 Anxiety 58 1.13 Origin of aggression 58 1.14 Castration as a playful activity. 60 1.15 Prescription symbol of doctors. 62 1.16 Acquisition and control of fire. 63 1.17 Personality and sexual behavior 67 1.18 Psychopathology. 70 1.19 The relationship between hysteria and epilepsy. 73 1.20 Relationship between culture and sexuality. 75 2 Origin of religion 2.1 Origin of religion 90 4 2.2 Fertility gods of ancient Tamil religion 94 2.3 Politics of castration – Part 1 97 2.4 Politics of castration – Part 2 104 2.5 Sacred fir pit. 106 2.6 Medical emblem and snake symbolism. 109 2.7 Moses. 117 2.8 Lord Iyappan. 118 2.9 Pilaiyaar 120 2.10 Murugan 122 2.11 Maha Baratham 125 2.12 Kaathuthu Karuppu 128 3. THEORY OF PERSONALITY 3.1 Formation of giving /receiving/taking away of traits 152 3.2 Giving traits and psychopathology 159 3.3 Receiving traits and psychopathology. 160 3.4 Taking away traits and psychopathology. 161 3.5 Cattell’s personality factors 162 3.6 Giving / receiving / taking away traits in different personalities 167 3.7 Giving / receiving / taking away traits and psychiatric disorders 169 3.8 Therapy 171 Conclusion 173 Bibliography 174 5 1. Sexulaity. This theory stresses the importance of castration anxiety as the main reason behind the psychopathology of various neuroses, sexual dysfunctions and sexual deviations; but then it does not support Freudian Oedipal theory . 1.1 Development of psycho social sexual identity A Male child has to identify with his father that he is also a male . This process is called as sex identification. In addition to sex identification the boy has to have a gender identification with his father with the net result of obtaining adult male sexual identity. Sex identification; During the period of 2-3 years the boy will engage in sex exploration. i.e. body exploration; this exploration leads to the discovery of the organ penis; handling the penis gives him some pleasure which will make him to indulge in repeated fingering of the penis; the pleasure out of repeated handling of the penis is only sensual in nature and it could not be called as infantile masturbation . Unfortunately parents equate this behavior with masturbation and as they condemn the boy’s penis handling behavior they initiate castration anxiety on him— “Mooka aruthuduvaen” [cutting off the nose]. During this times police/thief, doctor /patient plays enacted by children are their own ways of mastering the castration fear and these plays do not indicate their intention to become doctors or police later in their life. Oral pleasure while eating and anal pleasure while defecation are only sensual pleasure and there is no sexual pleasure { eros } out of them ; hence there could not be oral phase { kissing ,fellatio ,cuninglingus are not based on oral pleasure and these acts should not be called as oral sex or anal phase in the psycho sexual development of a child. As the 6-12 years period is an important one in the psychosexual development of a child there could not be any latency period as told by Freud. There are no stages of sexual development. Psychosexual development is a continuous process which starts by the end of 2nd year from sex identification to adult sexual identity. The boy longs to have the size of the body, shape of the shoulder and penis of that of his father; he imagines that if he could move closely with his father he will get him what he needs; this primitive identification with his father is based on Frazer’s’ theory of contagion— a magical thinking . 6 Gender identification; During the period of 3-12 years the boy has to have masculine gender identity with that of his father; the masculine characters are being aggressive , dominant, outgoing, masculine style of walking, dressing , speaking and interests in special play activities; the boy will imitate his father’s gender related behavior with the secret mission of getting a tall, big body and there by a big penis; his father’s acceptance and approval of his behavior and body growth will strengthen his identification with his father; to test whether the boy has identification problems, parents , specifically, his grand ma and grandpa used to ask him ,” Are you a mother’s pet? or father’s child?”; this is vice versa for a girl child. Gender definition; The American Heritage Society (2000) uses the following two sentences to illustrate the differences between sex and gender. The effectiveness of the medication appears to depend on the sex (not gender) of the patient; in peasant societies, gender (not sex) roles are likely to be more clearly defined. Sexologist John Money coined the term gender role in 1955. "The term gender role is used to signify all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively. It includes, but is not restricted to, sexuality in the sense of eroticism - Elements of such a role include clothing, speech patterns, movement, occupations, and other factors not limited to biological sex”. The process of getting sexual identity; Sex identity interacts with gender identity resulting in sexual identity which leads to adult sexual behavior. Male sex identity + with masculine traits (gender identity) male sexual identity adult male sexual behavior. Female sex identity + with feminine traits (gender identity) female sexual identity adult female sexual behavior. Social reinforcement and modeling are the psychosocial factors which promote one’s sex identity and gender identity. 7 Psycho social factors also interacts with neuro endocrine system and the fronto limbic- hypothalamo pituitary axis which in turn promote the development of skills of recognition of psycho social sexual clues. Development of psychosexual identity Flow chart. Male sex identity+masculine traits=male sexual identity. {Gender identity} Hetro sexual Female sex identity+faminine traits =female sexual identity. behavior. (Social reinforcement &modeling) Cultural sanction Psychosocial factors ← fronto lymbic system Hypothalamo pituitary adnenal axis. Possession; Suppose the boy has a male sex identity but attracted towards the mother’s feminine character he will have a male sex identity but then a feminine gender identity; This boy might devalue his penis and develop a “ longing “ for breast and 8 vagina assuming that his mother with breast is efficient , powerful, supportive , giving, caring and loving; he equates breasts to loving and caring , which is a magical thinking; the boy who is longing for the breast and to have feminine gender characters wants to disown the penis because of devaluation of his male sex organ as his father is arrogant, harsh , punitive, irresponsible and always under intoxication. The boy who is longing to have breasts will move away from his father because of his unwillingness to have penis and he will always move closely with mother with a idea that close contact with her will enable him to have breasts; if his motivation is thwarted and not promoted but ridiculed by his mother he might develop breast envy unless his breast longing behavior is overcome by a strong process of identification with his father with some miraculous improvement in father /son relationship . When a boy with strong male sex identity has a desire to have masculine gender character identifying with his father, and wish to have male secondary sexual characteristics like mustache, masculine voice and a big penis , will move closely with father thinking that close contact with him will enable him to get mustache, long penis in the future . These male children will value their penis and they will develop a strong male sexual identity. The boy who is longing to have a big penis will indulge in behaviors to please his father to have a big body and a long penis.This boy will be afraid of moving closely with his mother, with the fear that closeness will bring him the breasts{ Frazer’s theory of magical thinking/fear of contagion }; hence the boy moves away from his mother not because of resolution of oedipal complex during the period of 3-5 years but because of fear of developing not only feminine attributes but also physical attributes like breasts. The girl who wants to have a penis will move closely with his father identifying him and shun away from her mother because of the fear that moving closely with her will bring her breasts which she devaluates always; if her penis seeking behavior is blocked she will develop lifelong “penis envy “unless her penis envious behavior is overcome by a strong process of identification with her mother with some miraculous improvement in mother /daughter relationship . During the 5-12 years period { latency period of Freud} the boys will move only with boys in groups and the girls will move only with girls; this behavior will enable the boys and girls to develop respective gender identification and this is based also on the fear of possessing breasts by the boys and penis by the girls.