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Here is a diagram of 2 different psyches, the id is red, the ego is purple, and the superego is in blue. Which appeals to you more, and why?



I was thinking about a possible connection between my low libido and my penchant for extended abstract thought. My idea is that the conscious mind only has so much energy it can expend at one time. If there really is a physical distance that needs to be travelled between thoughts, and you have followed this train of abstract thought for some time, then you are further removed from the id and therefore less inclined towards sexual desire.

The only other logical explaination I have come up with is that the Aspie's tendancy to focus on one thing at a time can make sex a mundane pasttime. I know many of you will disagree with this one, and I'm sure gender does make a difference, but what do you think of my diagram?

I think you're absolutely right. However I do think with practice you can learn to make sex one of the things you focus on too, but at least for me that is a relatively difficult process.

I don't see why so many people think of meditation being a weird or unusual thing to do.... When I would go on break at work, I would walk out to my car and meditate, and always have to stop every few seconds to look over my shoulder to make sure no other coworkers had walked outside and could see me, for fear of them bringing it up while I wasn't around and saying mean things about me. Sometimes I hate teenagers even though I just turned 20 and have little right, if any, to say that.

The point of bringing up meditation though, is that it helps you focus your mind on whatever matter comes to hand. For people with aspergers, ADD and similar "syndromes" and "disorders" that can be life changing. I have gotten so much better at socializing, and figuring out how to properly communicate with members of the opposite sex since I have begun meditation it is unreal. I always underestimated how big of an impact it could have on my life, and considering I'm still "new" at it I can't wait to find out what else it can do for me. I highly recommend you look into it....

edit - I don't know what you mean by ID so I'm not really applicable for the test... but to some extent the object on the left appeals to me, because the colors feel more contained and one with each other. At the same time however, the ones on the right seem to be more interesting and intriguing, but I can focus on whichever one I want, and consciously make myself act in a manner that would be consistent with either one, depending on whether it is more or less socially acceptable to be that way at the time.

I haven't been here very long but I find your posts very interesting and well thought out. I think you have a lot of good things to say, and look forward to hearing more of them.

i don't think that there is necessarily any connection between the super-ego and abstract thought. i thought the super-ego was about self control, self discipline, etc, which in my case at least is definitely not something i associate with my abstract thought. in fact my abstract thought is a most uncontrolled and undisciplined tendency!

I would associate abstract thought more with the id/libido in the sense of having replaced the sex drive!

The old word for this replacement was "sublimation"; abstract thought/imaginative mental activity being driven by very same thing that drives people to have sex! The idea was that "sublimation" happened as a result of suppression/repression of the "natural" feelings in earliest infancy, but perhaps the process is a mixture of genes and environment, that determines how the brain develops in the crucial first couple of years, so that the body is not so closely/reliably linked to the brain, becoming more a source of anxiety/disorientation than of pleasure, so that abstract thought is then amongst the most satisfying things going, or seems to be unless put lots and lots of energy into maintaining contact with body with exercise etc.

In other words that in some/many humans the old animal instinct to mate has been "relaxed", leading to greater freedom of activity.

Of course in a social environment which is stressing sexual activity this can seem like a deficiency, whereas in fact it is a sign of freedom!

PS: re the pictures, i like both of them together. They look like two phases of action of the same creature. ( the reproductive stage on the right! ) Not keen on either them considered separately tho.

The ego is a complex thing, and I'd say it's a necessary thing to try and overcome, because ego truely can cloud one's judgement (also it can make them much easier to brainwash, from my experience)....... To truely be free of the ego philosophically, and intellectually, one must be willing to consider all possibilities, no matter how "controversial", and bear an open mind, but be able to decipher possibility from probability with the best of knowledge they have. That to me is intellectually over-stepping the ego, and it is not an easy process for many people..... Especially with all the propaganda out there fueling peoples' egos. But it's all mind over nature, freemasons were correct on that one though I despise the freemasons, and I obviously do not think high freemasonry has overcome ego (or greed or any of that other negative s**t).
The ego is the glue that holds the rest of a person's values and character traits together often but it doesn't really have to be though. I don't really think it's healthy. Ego is riddled with denial, denial is the protector of ego.

i prefer the one on the right

lol the squiggly one natural thought sparking one

I like the one on the left because it looks like a planet. The right hand one looks like a microbe.

I like the right one (lol - I mean the one on the right.), because the ego looks bridge-y, like a port - much like my own ego.
I haven't given it much thought, so no elaboration for you.

Have you always had a low libido? There might be other causes at play. I know that depression and not getting enough sleep can also cause a lack of interest in sex. There's probably some more common causes but I'm not a doctor so I don't know.