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17 Apr 2009, 10:43 am
sinsboldly wrote:
The wild thing (limerence) is in our limbic brain, all the morality and religion in the world hasn't stamped it out of us.
I don't think it can be an instinctive thing though, because it would make absolutely no sense in evolutionary terms to be overcome by a feeling which is so disabling, weakening, and akin to/identical to fear, about another human, either from the male or female perspective. Sexual excitement, yes, "lust", physical/chemical attraction, etc, yes, but not something which is so exclusive to one person, and debilitating.
I think it is only different from drug or other addiction in that it is profound emotional dependency on a person long after the biologically appropriate one of a baby's on its mother, and I believe that it is a product of society, and not at all something which society, or even religion, ( so long as it is Jesus, or similar, that you feel this about, or your husband if you are a woman perhaps
), would want to stamp out, because it compensates, like a safety-valve, for the pressure of belief in free will which our current society depends on.
The "wild thing" in the song might be lust, strong chemical attraction, but I doubt that it refers to the feeling of weakness and dependency, of worship/reverence, etc, which limerence apparently involves. There is nothing wild about limerence; it is more like being a wild animal that has suddenly been domesticated/enslaved/tamed and is enjoying the submission.
Although the experience can feel as if have been "freed", ( which is what I meant about it being a "relief" from the unnecessary burden/shackles of belief in free will ), I still don't think that limerence, which has little or nothing to do with sex, sexual excitement, etc, is something limbic, except in so far as it connects up with our fear centres, which are limbic of course. But perhaps that's what you meant, rather than limbic as in sexual desire.
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