Liberal application of science-y jargon has not rescued the 2500+ year delusion that Man's Essential Nature is divided between Animal Passions and Divine Reason.https://twitter.com/robsica/status/1152577864526471170?s=20 …
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Options to pursue individual wants/desires as default, seems to emerge a complex system that was subdued prior modernity. I don't know many humans that aren't perplexed once they are noodled.
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The book would describe those as "perverse" pleasures, as the actor performs them despite better knowledge that it's wrong (and in fact gains enjoyment from their wrongness).
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What's interesting is Freud's description of neuroticism as the "negative image" of perversion. The inability to feel pleasure due to wrongness (but gaining ego-pleasure from abstaining) vs taking pleasure directly in the wrongness.
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