What are your thought on this phenomenon?
Dear Norsemaiden,
Human Psychology Notes: Psychopathy Explained
The fundamental motivation of the so-called psychopathic personality is
love of gold. By this is not meant necessarily tangible gold per se, but, rather, gold as the ultimate symbol of money, of the idea of money. Since psychopaths do not reason, instead being potential grandmasters of intuitive logic, they cannot grasp the Platonic idea of money, only intuitively understand it and frame that understanding in sensual terms. Experiments on incarcerated psychopaths/sociopaths have shown that pain, humiliation, and isolation have no lasting effect on their behaviour. The only thing that changes their behaviour is the threat of pecuniary penalty – suffering a “fine” of some kind. To the psychopath, gold is the only possible access to joy, which is the hope of love. They are denied love, but inside they are very joyful people! No one en
joys himself more in life than Dr. Hannibal Lecter!
In terms of reference to a healthy active human mind possessed by a controlling spirit of Reason/Agape that subsumes and regulates the expression of all lower forms of human-accessible love (eros, philios, storgos, charis, romanos, ecstatos), the psychopath is the perfect bestial infant. In practical terms infants are animals, possessing the spark of cognition that defines them as beings with the potential to develop into healthily active-minded human individuals, but lacking virtually all expression of that spark in rational terms, instead being dominated by their bestial Ego. This ego is capable of experiencing chiefly only three emotions:
rage (at Mother’s overwhelming love and rules (charis)),
fear (that Mother will die), and
elation of object-possession (the tit, the toy, the lollipop, Mother’s passive smile (storgos)). The psychopath has become trapped, as if since birth or before, at this level of subhuman operation. The more effective ones learn to sublime their rage into an unctuous efficiency, and they are held in psychological place on that lower level by a fear of their own humanity so profound that it has become transparent, infusing and penetrating their entire bestial Ego (which nearly wholly dominates their entire mind) almost akin to “the Force” from the Star Wars films. It is like the Cosmological Constant, or Universal Gravitation, freezing them into a spacetime block universe condition of total enslavement to their undying, infinitely motivating Rage.
They use this Rage, which is the emotion which powers Logic - witness the fundamental motivating emotion of chess players, the drive to crush and destroy their opponent utterly on an arithmetical field of perfectly understood rules but endlessly fascinating novel permutations of damage, rape, and victory – to pursue their vastly enhanced feeling of elation of object-possession, where the object is infused with golden joy. This is, penultimately, associated with, but not necessarily derived from, their experience of mothering, of mother’s benevolent, passive, sunny smile, a yellow association which we find in
storgos, the emotion of benign parenthood.
When an individual human is an infant and small child, then, once she develops an Ego separate from Mother, defining an incipient human relationship, she invariably perceives her mother as a kind of goddess-like
witch, with magical powers to heal injuries with kisses, to protect baby from harm, to make the thundering Jehovah-father go away, to give suck, clean irritatingly filthy genitals, or to punish in unpredictable and potent ways. To relate to this the child develops a “mother image” inside her mind, as a kind of alternate Ego mask. As the healthy child grows, this personality is gradually diminished in relative influence over the mind, and the superstitions associated with it – a belief in magic, in gambling, a neurotic fear of “stepping on cracks” and similar, but outright psychotic sense-stimuli fetishism – are drained away into the gutters of the preconscious mind.
In many cases, however, and sometimes exceptionally powerfully in some tragic ones, the mother-image remains as a lurking “entity” within the mind, reaching its tentacles out during times of stress to “take over” the individual. People who respond to crises by spontaneously waxing hysterical, people who “can’t handle” certain words, concepts, and actions without going hysterical and sometimes even murderously vicious, are people who are infected with such an entity. A properly educated psychologist, after studying a given case for a suitable amount of time and in suitable detail and depth, can elicit this “witch mother” response reliably on command. Before doing so, however, the professional is well advised to take martial precautions!
The psychopath, then, is a human being consumed by self-reinforcing possession by a hypermasculine entity predicated on the above psychology – he is what we might call a “wild Terminator” personality, after the film series by director James Cameron featuring the exploits of human-shaped killing machines. But the thing to realise is this: in male psychopaths, at least,
there is no man inside the body – the psychopath’s mind is intrinsically female!
The female mind is characteristically preconsciously-subjective, and consciously-predicative (i.e. subject = “apple;” predicate = “red”
. It’s associate primary emotion is
envy – of the cognitive conscious advantage had by the stereotypical male mind, which inverts that female’s subject/predicate terms. The psychopath perfectly fits this bill of instinctive activity, evincing a serpentine seductiveness and oily charm typical to somewhat relatively lesser degrees of sophistication in the stereotypical homosexual conman. What has happened, in internal relational terms, is the psychopath’s envious preconsciousness as psychically incarnated into the bestial Ego, has encountered the Witch Mother and found itself staring into a mirror of its own hideousness. Because the psychopath is isolated from all humanity and so lives in an essentially solipsistic universe, this hideousness is a reflection of infinite fascination. The purest monster
marvels and lusts after her own reflection. Since, however, progress toward goals is impossible without relationship, this reflection metamorphoses into an image of “gold made flesh.” The way to possess this Object, in the form of accumulation of multiple stepping-stone objects (consumables), is through the supreme development of task-oriented, Logic/Rage. In essence, the desired reflection imprisons the female preconsciousness behind a screen that is perfectly congruous with the world of sense-stimuli. Emotion (Rage) and conceptualisation (Logic) redefine the psychopath’s bestial Ego in terms of the sense-perceived geometry of his flesh, and thus he defines himself as male.
Psychopaths vary in their specific desires, but all are fundamentally attempting to rape and torture
the alienated image of themselves within their minds in order to gain access to joy as the hope of some incomprehensible, unrecognized, and mystical “love” which becomes a conceptually hollow word, but the resonance of their humanity remains as a perfect yellow light within that they will, and do, do anything to attain. All else in the world is not disregarded, it is simply a candy store to smash and loot, with the Keystone Kops always in pursuit! What a wonderful world it truly is for such a person, for he lives in the ultimate Video Game. The hope of joy, in turn, is forever with him as he moves quietly toward his goals.
The psychopath commits sexual torture and other apparent cruelties not out of
malice – the evil desire to, in its worst sense, wound a human mind in order to violate and invert Agape – but out of a desire to
masturbate. A psychopath cannot truly fuck/rape (
philios), cannot make love (
storgos), cannot love other men or God (
agape), cannot experience the bliss of true marriage (
romanos). His one true love is to endlessly trip on wondrous novelty (
ecstatos) which gold/yellow/sunshine/buttercups represent as a substitute for the perfect storgos of benign parental love imbuing his mind. He is alone in the world, and to him that’s just gravy; his only relationship is with that world itself. A woman as targeted victim of his pseudosadistic depredations is not herself being tortured, it is he torturing the image of the witch-mother as she is incarnated in aesthetically pleasing terms,
and she loves it. He is perfectly insincere, so nothing the victim says will have any communicative effect on him, because he knows that “she” is in fact enjoying the hell out of the experience. The perfect liar cannot conceive of the concept of Truth, only pursue gold.
The question of the origin of psychopathy remains unanswered, but the possibility of “recovering” them remains open. They are human, but they are fantastically specialised humans. Their primal purpose was probably some kind of tribal torture-master. In a small community, the psychopath would have little opportunity to prey on his fellows in a way that wouldn’t cut his own throat by being outcast, killed, or otherwise deprived of material status. He would turn his proclivities on the outside world, to animals and such, and, when confronted with a hostile alien tribe, he in that situation would make the ideal “games player” who could advise the war-chief of the best strategies, and who could be left to execute or interrogate prisoners. Such a person’s reputation would become valuable as something to scare enemies with; indeed, all soldiers cultivate the psychopathic personality to some degree or other, in their uniforms and carriage if not their minds. He would also make a good high priest, given the opportunity to engage in rituals like Mithraic bull sacrifice, “helping” initiates castrate themselves in ecstatic worship of the insane Great Goddess, ritualised proto-sado-masochistic rape, Aztec sacrifice, cannibalism, and so forth.
Curing a psychopath would, in principle, require an extensively prepared and vastly skilled “exorcism” in order to stripmine away the various masks down to the level of the hypermasculinised bestial Ego and the Witch Mother opposite it. The immediate goal is not to transform the individual into a fully-functioning healthy individual operating on the level of Reason/Agape
as such, but, rather, to effect a polarity switch in the directionality of concern. The spark of human free will would have to be stirred and aroused and, being just a spark, and without self-consciousness, just “ticked” from a positive polarity (Rage/Logic -> Joy/Gold) to a negative one (Joy/Gold -> Rage/Logic). In effect, the point of attack is to kick in the hypermasculine Ego’s slavering jaws through a specific, carefully calculated professionally-orchestrated infiltration of a
shadow of Agape. This shadow blots out the shine of the gold like clouds obscuring the sun, and to defend himself the psychopathic personality
chooses to switch sides and reidentify with the Witch Mother, in opposition to the bestial Ego. Note that this does not lift him up into the lofty realms of loving ordinary humans dwell within.
What it does is change his conception of how to get gold, of what is gold. Identifying with the hated mother-image, and thus operating back in terms of a truthful self-identity (in this case, again, non-conceptual, merely oriented by emotion) of himself as preconscious subjective (i.e. with a female mind), he generates an internal irony between
her[/] female mind and her male body/brain, and that irony is the emotional substrate upon which the shadow of Agape is perpetually subconsciously (i.e. the conscious mind operating without noticing what the preconscious is doing – homosexuals, transsexuals, etc. are largely products of becoming trapped to various degrees in the subconscious; the psychopath is merely the master of this entrapment, to the point where all confusion has retreated into the very air).
What results is someone who is no longer a psychopath, but a neuropath. Whereas the psychopath’s primary emotion of envy was translated into a simulated sense of perfectly sublimed male shame – that “universal gravitation” effect aforementioned – that gravitation is suddenly turned into anti-gravity, and the natural primary female emotion of guilt becomes its replacement. Because of her nature, the neuropath is consumed with paranoia, eyes bugging out, movements become extremely careful, gentleness is suddenly understood as a useful and intuitively metaphorical method of acquiring gold, and the gold itself is defined not in terms of destroying/sexually torturing/mutilating blissfully pulchritudinous mother-image avatars, or insults to aesthetic pleasure (Hannibal, again), or the accumulation of force-projection ability (in common parlance, “power”, or money per se (the fundamental model of money is “penis->rape = submission”. Instead, she is possessed by an intensely guilty mothering-personality defined by an internally sado-masochistically restrained bestial charis ("divine sexual Mother-Love") that has no use for human interaction but is consumed with terrifically restrained lust to fulfill her maternal urges to elicit “smiles” (gold – which the psychopathic infant consumed from his mother) from lower forms of life: children, cats, plants, and so forth. A natural hermit, such a person might well become a Druid or something similar, indifferent to conventional morality but entranced with working toward a joy within that permeates her universe like rain upon the pine-thick mountainside.
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
--1 Timothy 6:10
Narziss
