Continuing the previous Post, individual’s contact with masturbation is relevant because, even when there is an active sexual life, they may have blocks and/or retentions in its development that, despite not being apparently connected to sexuality, trigger anxieties that are discharged through masturbation. Structural and functional blocks may happen in one or more stages as well as at different levels, creating either partial or full blocks or retentions in S.I development.
Functional blocks are associated with any sort of moral censorship: cultural, religious, etc. In these cases, people complete S.I and they are able to have sexual/loving relationships, either the short or long-term ones, but they can’t enjoy sexual desire, both alone and in sexual interactions. These are cases in which internalized moral censorship impede erotic exploitation of their own bodies, or their partners’, in sexual interaction, once internal impediments[1] happen in contact with desire. These are, however, accessible anguishes, i.e, people are usually aware of them, which makes it easier to be diagnosed and treated.
Structural blocks, on the other hand, are linked to introjected traits during childhood, which people are not aware of and, therefore, don’t constitute a source of anguish in their present lives. In these cases, censorship may turn into “rigidity”, a trait that will probably bother them but is not obviously associated with their sexuality. Retention, in turn, is the term used to describe the level of blockage in S.I development. And if functional blocks don’t result in impediments to S.I conclusion, retentions will always be linked to sexual identity blocks. Structural blocks are the ones in infantile masculine and feminine identity models. They will be responsible for S.I development blocks. They happen as a result of Inhibitory relationships with parental models (or with the ones who had played these roles). Parental identity models- feminine and masculine- which are affectively distant or indifferent, may partially or fully impede fusion with idealized sexual identities later on in puberty and adolescence. Bad infantile models may have a negative influence on identity construals. They ususally come from:
Inhibitory atmospheres (deliberate or not)- whose consequences are the inhibition of spontaneity. An upbringing marked by disregard, violence and disqualification of any sort may be at the root of creativity sterility, once children, unconsciously, won’t mirror someone who mistreated them. And depending on the level of frustration or disappointment they may become unable to receive or recognize facilitating atmospheres, once they hadn’t introjected loving and affectionate models. In order to protect themselves they may become “shielded” from affective contact with others[2] [3]
Eroticized energy/atmosphere (either deliberate or not)
These behaviors/conditions are also subtle and difficult to evaluate, since, many times, adults aren’t aware of them, i.e, they don’t mean to eroticize the relationship with their kids. Children, nevertheless, have these experiences blocked (don’t have access to these memories), because they didn’t have, at that time, psychological maturity to integrate those experiences (intellectual understanding and emotional stability to react, either to consent to them or not[4]).
To be continued in the next Post
[1] I’ll use internal impediments and blocks as synonyms. [2] This is a free translation. [3] This concept, for PA, may be understood in many levels and will be better developed in a coming essay. [4] Let’s remember the analogy between a Tree and its branches and the Master Thesis and its secondary assumptions-deductions. Sexuality is genetically prescribed. One of the deductions of this premise is that there is no “agent” or “active” eroticism in children. Children play and have contact with discharges of pleasure, but not erotic behaviors. Eroticizing charges coming from adults may be frightening or inhibitory, despite not having been intentional, because children feel there is something wrong or prohibited about it, but they don’t have psychological conditions (maturity) to react and to integrate those experiences. They will only be apt to it from puberty on.
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