Ramson's Theory on Sexuality, Aggression

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. 2This 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. 3S.No Contents Sexulaity <a href="#6_0">Development of psycho social sexual identity </a>1. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">1.1 </li><li style="flex:1">6</li></ul>1.2 <a href="#15_0">The ololuge </a>15 22 26 34 36 41 43 47 50 53 58 58 60 62 63 67 70 73 75 1.3 <a href="#22_0">Deviation in the development of psychosexual identity </a><a href="#26_0">Sexual dysfunctions and aberration </a><a href="#0_0">Therapy </a>1.4 1.5 1.6 <a href="#0_1">Incest </a>1.7 <a href="#0_2">Initiation into sexual relationships</a><a href="#0_2">. </a><a href="#0_3">Masturbation and castration</a><a href="#0_3">. </a><a href="#0_4">The quest for the original father. </a><a href="#0_5">Human sacrifice / animal [ritual] sacrifice and symbolic sacrifice. </a><a href="#0_6">Oedipal anxiety of the father</a><a href="#0_6">. </a><a href="#0_7">Anxiety </a>1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 <a href="#0_8">Origin of aggression </a><a href="#0_9">Castration as a playful activity. </a><a href="#0_10">Prescription symbol of doctors. </a><a href="#0_11">Acquisition and control of fire. </a><a href="#0_12">Personality and sexual behavior </a><a href="#0_13">Psychopathology</a><a href="#0_13">. </a><a href="#0_14">The relationship between hysteria and epilepsy</a><a href="#0_14">. </a><a href="#0_15">Relationship between culture and sexuality</a><a href="#0_15">. </a>Origin of religion <a href="#0_16">Origin of religion </a>2<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2.1 </li><li style="flex:1">90 </li></ul>42.2 <a href="#0_17">Fertility gods of ancient Tamil religion </a><a href="#0_18">Politics of castration </a><a href="#0_18">– </a><a href="#0_18">Part 1 </a><a href="#0_19">Politics of castration </a><a href="#0_19">– </a><a href="#0_19">Part 2 </a><a href="#0_20">Sacred fir pit. </a>94 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2.3 </li><li style="flex:1">97 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2.4 </li><li style="flex:1">104 </li></ul>106 109 117 118 120 122 125 128 2.5 2.6 <a href="#0_21">Medical emblem and snake symbolism. </a><a href="#0_22">Moses</a><a href="#0_22">. </a>2.7 2.8 <a href="#0_23">Lord Iyappan</a><a href="#0_23">. </a>2.9 <a href="#0_24">Pilaiyaar </a>2.10 2.11 2.12 <a href="#0_25">Murugan </a><a href="#0_26">Maha Baratham </a><a href="#0_27">Kaathuthu Karuppu </a>THEORY OF PERSONALITY <a href="#0_28">Formation of giving /receiving/taking away of traits </a><a href="#0_29">Giving traits and psychopathology </a>3. 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 152 159 160 161 162 167 169 171 <a href="#0_30">Receiving traits and psychopathology</a><a href="#0_30">. </a><a href="#0_31">Taking away traits and psychopathology</a><a href="#0_31">. </a><a href="#0_32">Cattell’s personality</a><a href="#0_32"> </a><a href="#0_32">factors </a><a href="#0_33">Giving / receiving / taking away traits in different personalities </a><a href="#0_34">Giving / receiving / taking away traits and</a><a href="#0_34"> </a><a href="#0_34">psychiatric disorders </a><a href="#0_35">Therapy </a><a href="#0_36">Conclusion </a><a href="#6_0">Bibliography </a>173 174 51. 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. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Oral pleasure </li><li style="flex:1">while eating and anal pleasure while </li></ul>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 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Freud. There are no stages of sexual development. Psychosexual development is </li><li style="flex:1">a</li></ul>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 . 6Gender 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. 7Psycho social factors also interacts with neuro endocrine system and the fronto limbichypothalamo 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. (Social reinforcement &modeling) behavior. Cultural sanction <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Psychosocial factors ← </li><li style="flex:1">fronto lymbic system </li></ul>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 8vagina 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. 9Possession vs Exploration; During the adolescent period , having gained the confidence of a clear , firm male sex identity and a strong masculine gender characters with the net result of having an appreciable /solid male sexual identity , the boy wants to explore the breasts , by touch, since there is no more fear of possession of breasts ; he will be dreaming to see the breasts whenever an opportunity comes in the class room, play ground , swimming pool or in the beach; these boys used to unbutton their shirts exposing their hairy chest; this is not to show their gold chain but to convey the females that they have no breasts and are fully males. Similarly the female will try to cover her chest with shawls so that no boy can see her developing breasts; one cannot fail to notice the ” shoulder erect walking “ of the boys [ without the breasts] and the “ shoulder down posture” of the girls [ due to the heaviness of their breasts] ; the decoration of shoulders with golden stars and the chest with medals by men, thus , has a symbolic meaning ; a girl will expose her breasts only and exclusively to her only lover when the right time comes when she thinks that she has attained a solid female sexual identity with the complte disappearance of fear of contagion; in an unrestrained society the girls will wear tight tea shirts to convey the message to the boys that she has got breasts and she is a fully grown female; boys will be seen always twisting their growing mustache upwards. The boy who has a poor male sex identity, poor male gender identity with the net result of having feeble male sexual identity will move closely with the girls not to explore the breasts but with the secret mission of possessing the breasts; these boys who have “ longing for breasts possession” might get attracted also towards the breasts of mother and sisters and this is not an incestual behavior as their intention is only possession and not exploration. During the premarital romantic period ‘touching ‘ and ‘holding the hands’ together and body contact between the boy and the girl will not provoke the earlier fear of possession of opposite body attributes; this leads to frequent holding of hands and frequent hugging ; now partners are ready to kiss each other; aceptance of each other’s gender / general characters and body attributes leads to kissing over the fingers, the fore head , the cheeks and finally to lip kiss; this will take several days or weeks or months depending upon the personality of the partners and the culture in which they live. Sweet kisses Children will be reluctant to kiss others after 3 years and they will not accept kisses from others , even from parents and relatives ; after 3-5 years, children will give only ‘flying kisses’ . 10 Why do man and woman kiss each other?! Frazer’s theory of contagion Law of contagion: When “a” is associated with “b” once, even when they are seperated at a later date whatever things that happen in “a” will also happen in “b”; vice versa. Example; The placenta of the new born calf is tied up on the branches of milk trees (peepal tree, country fig tree) with the magical belief that the mother cow will give more milk. “un aechil enakku vaendaam” ( “ I do not want your spit/ contaminared food or water ”) is the often said statement by the children in Tamil culture ( while unwilling to share the half eaten biscuit “double dipped”, because of their unconscious fear that other’s saliva tinged food would affect their’s individuality. Children do not share the half eaten candy with other children because of the magical fear of{ Frazer’s theory of contagion} contamination and losing one’s own developing individual identity and not because of fear of infection ; this fear of contamination begins even before the onset of ejaculation for boys and menarche for girls; as the small children grow older they will be ready to share candy or a chocolate only, when the candy is divided/ shared by hands when it is covered by a kerchief or tissue paper { so that it is not tinged in other’s saliva] ; as years go they will be ready to share the chocolate covered by a kerchief and this time it is allowed to be bitten in between the jaws of a friend and is made in to pieces for sharing ; as the fear over the saliva , contaminating their identity [fear of possession of character / body attributes] gets reduced as years pass, when the boy has the full confident of male pscho sexual identity he is ready to share half eaten snacks with his girlfriend ; later it culminates in tasting her saliva itself through kissing during the end of late adolescent period ; the fear over the saliva which was there threatening partners all along in the past , for the last 15 years , ends in deep , forcible violent kisses, finally in “fingering” and tasting the vaginal fluid itself in thebed room ; the fear of contamination makes the majority people to indulge in one to one male /female sexual relationship . “Aechil elai nayae! “ in Tamil means —doggy behavior . Maaran’s father scolded him for not studying well by saying ,” go and drink the urine of Sivamani , then only you can learn good habits”! ; few days later 15 year old, Maraan was admitted in a hospital for attempted suicide!. Meena was married to his maternal uncle [mother’s brother] for the last 10 years; she was working as a teacher in a primary school ; her husband, Sivanesan was doing agricultural work; Sivanesan was 10 years elder to his wife; there was no consummation of marriage even after a decade of ‘marital’ life. Meena was very much obedient to her husband ; used to serve meal to him ; used to talk about household matters with him; but then she never allowed her husband to touch her ; being her uncle, Sivanesan never scolded her for not giving consent for sexual life; both were brought for psychiatric 11 help by Meenabal’s mother [ Sivanesan’s sister] for non consummation of marriage ;Meenabal said that she did not have any sexual interest and she was prepared to give consent to Sivanesan to get married for a 2nd time; The couple came for a 2nd visit and therafter they did not turn up. Malar vizhi was married to Kabilan for the last four years ; Kabilan was 10 years older to Malar vizhi; she never allowed her husband to have sexual life with her ; she had ever served him food or water ans never had any spontaneous talk with him; as she was brought by her mother for counselling , she did not show much interest in the counselling session ; Patient did not came for 2nd visit. It was interpretated by the therapist that , both Meenabal and Malarvizhi were not interested to have sex with their husbands because of the reason that they had not turned away because of the fear of contagion from men who were 10 years older then them during their period of their psychosexual identity development; unless a person had fear of contagion towards a person in the past he /she would not develop liking for sexual exploration of that person ; the fear of contagion usually would be towards persons of oppostite sex of similar age group [natural selection]; hence the age difference between couples should not be more than 3-4 years , [ giving allownee to cultural practice] and if it is more than 7 years , definitely there would be problem in the sexual life of couples. The patriarchal society wants to have a young bride for the bridegroom because of the paranoid doubts about the virginity of the women and also due to the fact that man always have unconscious fear of handling a woman whose age is equal to that of him in the bed room apart from the idea of using her as servant maid for him in his old age . Mannan was brought for the complaints of sleep disturbances , lack of interest in maintaining his personal hygiene , delusion of reference and strong suicidal intentions , of very short duration ; He accused that his friends and neighbors were making fun of him that he was a no” 9 “and that was the reason for the failure of his marriages; as his own brother suspected his ” potency” , he decided to commit suicide. Mannan got married to his sister’s daughter about 6 years back; that time he was 26 and the girl was 16; There was no consummation; his marriage life ended soon as the girl opted to continue her studies; later he went abroad to work and returned home after 3 years; he again got married to a 26 years old girl, 8 months back. But then his 2nd marriage also ended in divorce , following interpersonal problems between inlaws as he could not make his wife pregnant even after 8 months of marital life.

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