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The disgust protects the men from the homosexuality.The disgust is almighty to
protect the men from the homosexuality. The theory of the attachement (John
Bowlby, Attachement and loss) explains the trauma from which homosexuality springs
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EXPLAINING HOMOSEXUALITY
1. Introduction
Three concepts are key to understanding the psychological disturbances that bring
about homosexuality. They are the concepts of inner realm, psychic virility and
love instance.
2. Inner realm
The inner realm is an intimate precinct encompassing all those things which a
person cherishes. All individuals have their own inner realm. In the normal
individual, the inner realm usually encompasses spouse, children, self, trade or
profession, automobile, house, and so forth. In sum, it embraces everything that
the individual holds dear and would regret losing.
The inner realm has no clear boundaries. Outside that precinct lies all that
leaves the individual indifferent or arouses disgust.
3. Psychic virility
The psychic virility is the psychological centre of drives.
It is sensitive to all assault upon the inner realm, meaning aggression against
anything lying within that precinct.
Its extreme sensitivity makes the psychic virility susceptible not only to assault
but also to threat and provocation–to whatever endangers the inner realm.
Assault upon the inner realm puts pressure on the psychic virility. Whenever the
psychic virility is pressured, a drive is awakened. In the case at hand, the drive
is the desire to fend off the assault. If that is possible, the psychic virility
decompresses and the drive retreats. The exertion of pressure on the psychic
virility creates an unpleasant, almost unbearable sensation. Decompression
produces a pleasant sensation.
Because of its extreme sensitivity and fragility, the psychic virility suffers
under strong pressure. However, the stress arising from the routine vicissitudes
of life is generally mild and causes no suffering.
The psychic virility is also capable of foresight and can operate to prevent
assault through the search for prestige. Indeed, prestige is a demonstration of
strength, which in turn compels respect and thus prevents aggression. (The psychic
virility does not wait for the individual to be dead to mobilise, for once death
has occurred, it is too late to act.)
The search for prestige is important, given what is admittedly an unfortunate
human tendency to despise and reject weakness and poverty.
The search for prestige has a twofold purpose, for prestige is also a factor in
seduction.
There are many ways to gain prestige, some of them being to buy a luxury
automobile, wear expensive clothes, own a beautiful house or practise a high-
profile profession.
Prestige can also be acquired through sports, which allow for the show of strength
and superiority over one's adversaries.
Ordinarily, the drive of the psychic virility is called arrogance in sports
confrontations, vanity in the quest is for luxury, jealousy when one covets
someone else's property, egotism when everything is seen in terms of self, and
pride in other cases. The drive of the psychic virility also intervenes in the
desire to seduce, in which case it is the need for love that stimulates
(pressures) the psychic virility.
Broadly speaking, the psychic virility can be stimulated in three ways, i.e.,
through aggression, the need for love and the satisfaction of daily needs (e.g.,
food).
Conclusion
The function of the psychic virility is to trigger drives.
Its physical function is to perpetuate life by ensuring that the individual
thrives.
Its psychological function is to protect the love instance.
The psychic virility is the custodian of the love instance.
During sleep, the psychic virility manifests itself through dreams.
4. Love instance
The love instance is a psychological mechanism sensitive to tenderness, affection,
friendship and love.
Nor only is the love instance sensitive to love (friendship, affection); it also
has a lifelong need for love (friendship, affection), as though it were nourished
by love (friendship, affection).
When the love instance lacks love (friendship, affection), the psychic virility
comes under pressure. The individual seeks that missing love (friendship,
affection), one example being an individual suffering from loneliness, which is a
lack of affection and human warmth.
When the love instance is nourished (stimulated) by tenderness, affection,
friendship or love, the individual loves the one who supplies that tenderness,
friendship or love.
The love instance is ordinarily called the heart, although some common expressions
employing the word 'heart' actually refer to the psychic virility instead of the
love instance.
The love instance and psychic virility are intimately linked. The psychic virility
shields the love instance so that whatever or whoever wounds the psychic virility
does not stimulate the love instance.