- Illiterate wrote:
- Satyr, have you researched psychopathy?
No.
- Illiterate wrote:
- A few questions rose in my mind when I watched that video.
#1. Does psychopathy manifest differently in males and females?
It's logical to assume hormonal differences will make a difference.
- Illiterate wrote:
- #2. In that video it was said that psychopaths follow only their impulses about pleasure-seeking; claiming that many psychopaths are drug addicted and alcoholics. Also, according to Freudian psychology, psychopaths lack superego. But the question is... is this apt description about psychopaths (who are said to be 1-4% of the population) taking into account that very many people seem to have problems with controlling their actions or even being conscious of them. Many people (much more than 1-4%) are alcoholics and seek pleasure only. In fact, it sometimes seems to me that most people lack the superego. Most people don't have the potential to be noble, to have principles.
We all have impulses and are pleasure driven, a psychopath is unable to control himself despite knowing the possible consequences.
- Illiterate wrote:
- #3. Are psychopaths more prone to suicide? If they are, why? Atleast many murderers have committed suicide in prison. Here one example. Don't know if she is a psychopath or not, but I think she looks pretty vicious; having perhaps the psychopathic eyes that were mentioned in the video. Amber Hilberling.
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Not everyone in prison for murder is a psychopath.
There's a ego component.....
Many psychologists reject the term, since it is often used to refer to a variety of mental conditions.
The anti-social part is usually the factor most associate with psychopaths. An indifference to another's pain...lack of empathy....
Objectivity is confused for psychopathy, as if knowing the truth denies the possibility that I can sympathize with another's plight.
Autism is mistaken for psychopathy, because if their inability to sympathize or read a room.
An inability to sympathize is the central theme here.
A mediocre mind associates empathy with sympathy and if not sympathy then antipathy - there must be some emotion corrupting judgement.
Inability and intentionality are confused because, according to dimwits, to be able to sympathize automatically means you must subjugate reasoning to emotion.
They insist all is subjective, in equal measure, and that objectivity is either impossible, evil, or an excuse to be selfish.
With psychopaths I suspect some kind of trauma affecting their ability to sympathize, r antipathize.....they tend to be emotionless.
- Illiterate wrote:
- #4. If psychopaths do lack the superego and they are also more prone to suicide... Isn't this kind of a paradox? Since the base human or base animal have a strong justification for life, and a strong sense of self-preservation; why would a psychopath kill himself/herself? Also, suicide was considered noble in many cultures. So how can an individual with no superego be noble? Or are the psychology behind committing the suicide different here?
Ego is powerful.
The ego may prefer death to the indignity of jail.
It's sense of superiority must be maintained and when it begins to doubt itself it may seek to end it.
There are many reasons for suicide, so this must be approached case by case.
Suicide indicates an inability to cope with a circumstance.
Incarceration may be a circumstance that challenges the mind's ego, its sense of self, tis image.
Freedom the state many cannot live without - preferring death.
The fact that many are now denying free-will only shows us how dead inside they've become.
They kill the self, to endure existence.....and the responsibility.
The pain of realizing that whatever circumstances you are in you are, to some degree, responsible, is unbearable to most.
The psychopath may physically suicide but the postmodern nihilist may ideologically suicide - killing the idea of self - because he is too much of a coward to do the other.
