Monday, April 28, 2008

The Anal stage

Why do you guys think the anal stage of our psychological evolution exists and when (and why) does it end (if ever).


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1 comment:

Substance said...

Every part of the body fascinates babies and toddlers once they first discover that they have a certain amount of control over them.

Orifices are particularly fascinating for several reasons.

We must remember that it is only around two years old that babies realize they can control their anal sphincter to a certain degree. The late discovery ought to at least entertain them for a while.

Substances going in and out is a phenomenon that challenges their entire perception of reality.

Where did they come from? Is it really from me?

It is scary to think the body functions autonomously from our control. This creates a strain on a non-dualistic way of seeing life. How can the body be me if it seems to have a life of its own? A mixture of fascination and fear ensues.

Pleasure. There is a strong public embarrassment and a firm condemnation of pleasure - the primitive lack of control from the "sophisticated" Western mind. Toddlers probably pick this up.

As we know, people laugh about what they are most sensitive too, in order to expiate guilt or find a coping mechanism. Fragility and repression seek healing one way or the other.

People try very hard to be respectable. It is difficult to feel respectable when you produce big ugly and smelly turds. It is taboo, people have difficulty talking about it openly in respectable circles.

Adults are too often dissociated from their bodies. This results with a sloppiness with everything having to do with conscious control over the body.

Why do so many men tense up and pant during sex? They want the pleasure to come quickly, leave the body. There is so little self control and cultivation of the pleasure. It is very rare for men to develop the skills to control ejaculation, build vigor, experience multiple consecutive dry orgasms and full body orgasms, because they do not learn to connect to their pleasure organs and take a rational approach to it. Pleasure is not deemed a respectable investment of time. Instead men spoil all their sexual energy, brush off the guilt and say it's a sign of virility and normality.

Let's all think and even openly talk about feces and respect the process. We will be freer from the pressure to be respectable and will liberate ourselves from anal-centered complexes.