Freudian Wish-Fulfillment and UFOs
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For me, as a Freud addict, his sexual obsessions often ruin
explanations for some human occurrences and behaviors, but I am in agreement
with the Freudian assessment that sexuality is the cornerstone of humanity’s
social endeavors.
But there are times when unconscious, preconscious, and
conscious thoughts and subsequent activity are not governed by the libido, as
Jung intuited and was right to think so.
While one can make a case that everything has a sexual base,
Freud’s sublimation theory allows for that sexual base to be transformed into
something without a sexual patina.
This is what I am proposing here: wish-fulfillments are not
always (or usually) about a need for sexual gratification. (This is where Jung
excels.)
I could re-present Jung’s views in his Flying Saucer
book but I’ve already done that to the point of reader tediousness.
Persons having psychical observations – UFOs, ghosts,
Nessie, Big Foot, et cetera – can be said to be fulfilling a deep rooted
(or even a shallow) desire to experience something that enthuses them, the
predilection or need for that often the plot of fiction or plays such as
“Shakespeare’s” A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest.
Bruno Bettelheim’s often dismissed The Uses of
Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales relies
heavily on Freud’s sexual etiology for everything but Bettelheim takes readers
into the unconscious mechanisms that are prevalent in fairy tales and why such
stories resonate with all of us.
There is a desire to recreate the ecstasy that earlier experiences
brought (often with a sexual cast as the Freudians have competently and
thoroughly shown over the years) and which is brilliantly detailed in Camille
Paglia’s Sexual Personae.
Some older or repressed readers here will deny that persons
have unconscious proclivities that cause them to see ghosts, UFOs, or other
anomalous things and I’ll give them that.
But the mechanism(s), psychological (and perhaps
neurological) that induce sexual fantasies can be at work and are when it comes
to experiencing paranormal things.
The fear or often orgasmic-like pleasure when having a
vision, brings back earlier feelings that one hopes to regenerate, bringing a
wish-fulfillment to fruition, and wish-fulfillment is the achievement hoped
for, just as it is, sexually, as described in Freud’s greatest, by some
estimations, work The Interpretation of Dreams.
And one has to accept that fears or guilt are assuaged by a
cathartic release when one has UFO sightings or visions of ghosts/spirits, even
Big Boot or Nessie-like creatures.
Jung sees the desire to recreate earlier feelings of
pleasure endowed by something more than unconscious sexual memories, and I have
to agree with Jung here.
Some UFO visions are dredged up or brought about by
nostalgic desires, steeped in the joys of youth rather than the joys of sexual
delights (or guilt).
The excitement of a UFO sighting or encounter is one that
evokes a psychological panic not unlike that of one’s first orgasm or thrill of
something as simple as a roller coaster ride.
Thus, some UFO sightings, or even the reading of them, is
grist for wish-fulfillments that gratify the psyche in ways that other
experiences do not.
That’s why we UFO enthusiasts stick with the topic. It makes
us feel good.
N.B. For an excellent exegesis of Freud's views see Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory by Paul Kline [Methuen & Co, London, 1972]
N.B. For an excellent exegesis of Freud's views see Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory by Paul Kline [Methuen & Co, London, 1972]
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