No reason, it’s just how they function. They are centered in the lower brain and are psychologically cannibalizing then neocortex.
Read this a number of times, until the absurdity of it becomes clear.
Nothing happens for no reason. It’s not, by the way, that I dpn’t understand where you are coming from. I am trying to help you see something from my perspective that I think might be helpful.
Sorry but my stance isn’t emotional, I spent years trying to figure out wtf psychopaths are after a psychopath encounter.
I would be shocked if any encounter with a psychopath, specially one that was intense enough that you noticed it was a psychopath, did not leave a strong emotional imprint.
Let’s assume your lower brain model.
Why does the lower brain perform these actions?
My guess is that it’s an evolutionary failsafe mechanism when the frontal cortex stops working properly, but I don’t really know.
Sure, but beyond that. What does the failsafe mechanism consist of? What is or are its mechanisms?
It’s not random.
By the way, I want to add that psychoanalysis is neither completed nor excluded by, but runs entirely parallel to neurology. Psychoanalysis simply assumes a physical structure that supports the mechanisms it studies.
Much like you don’t need to know if a computer is pulling from RAM or from hard drive to know how the logical flow of a computer program operates.
I think it takes control of the neocortex kinda like how a lizard would put on a human mask. Brain/mind regions in the neocortex keep getting switched on and off whenever they’re needed.
There was this experiment where they asked psychopaths to empathize, and they turned their empathy circuits on and then off. Insane stuff.
But the higher emergent functions of the neocortex are lost.
But mainly psychopaths seem to run on lower brain stuff. Sexuality, domination etc. and they seem to have about four emotions. Happy sad angry contempt.
Everybody runs on sexuality and domination. It is part of mammalian reality. Everybody also experiences a small number of basic emotions upon which a complex psychic structure is mounted.
Psychopaths have all parts of the brain same as everybody else. So the question is of software: where is the divergence, why, and what does it entail.
What you are saying is not specific enough, it does not describe enough. That’s why it sounds emotional, like when something is too scary to think about so you just simplify it a bit.
You are 100% about empathy and how it can later be turned on and off. I think you identify the subjects correctly. But I think you stop short of anaylising them.
Well and you sound emotional to me. We don’t even know how the psyche of normal people is really manufactured, how am I supposed to know how exactly it happens in psychopaths.
Yeah, sure, I’m emotional. But my point is that, well, maybe it’s a moot point.
I suppose it’s true that if you don’t already have an analytic framework of the normal psyche, or even just the human psyche, that you are working with, there is nothing to analyse psychopathy on the basis of, psychically.
This thread, for example, takes psychoanalysis as a starting point, using Jung as an axis.
Well my analitical framework uses much more than that. Who said I don’t have one?
Psychologically I don’t fear psychopaths at all. I only feel some contempt and I regret that they exist. I learned to view them as inferior, which is also one of the few things they can’t handle.
If I fear anything it could maybe be that these psychopaths can kill us for no reason at all, but I don’t have any psychopaths in my life.
Fear was just an example. Revulsion, too, can disuade cool analysis:
Anyhow, I don’t want to harp on that. I’m glad you have a fuller framework. I do think that a psychopath is a human, with the same psychic model, and the aberration can be traced and described.
Well I once stared deep into the mind of a female psychopath. Finding out that she doesn’t have a mind where we assume everyone has a mind, was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had.
Do you think it is possible that, isntead of a mind, what you saw an absence of was normal emotional experience, empathy?
No, “just” an absence of normal emotional experience, empathy is very common, for example sociopaths are everywhere. But even among normies, there are dozens of different forms of mild and not so mild emotional abnormalities. But these all still have minds.
Yeah, I don’t mean abnormal empathy. I mean lack of.
By the way, sexuality is already an emotional experience. So a distinction here.
Sociopaths lack empathy but have minds.
Sexuality may be an emotional experience for you, but not necessarily to everyone.
It is for everyone. So is domination.
What do you call a lack of mind, as exactly as you can?