You can tell from one's sex life how someone might relate to others socially, or we can observe one's social relationships and infer what their sex life will be like.
Arthur Janov: Sex & The Subconscious: Perversions and Diversions in the Realm of the Libido
As I feel this I get furious and full of rage with being stopped. I growl and fight and hit the walls and refuse to let him win. The intensity of the hate is vicious and I did have feelings of wanting to kill him, which thankfully I didn't act out, but did feel it deeply, and safely, at the Center.
Arthur Janov: Sex & The Subconscious: Perversions and Diversions in the Realm of the Libido
When the energy of an imprint is blocked, we have little access to ourselves. This also suggests why depression often involves being sexless, as the system is in the energy conservation mode - parasympathetic. All energy is suppressed. The underlying pain has demanded that so much energy be expended in repression that there is little left over for other things.
And the memory endures, keeping the system off balance where the parasympathetic system is dominant.
Note: See Parasympathetic nervous system for explanation.
Arthur Janov: Sex & The Subconscious: Perversions and Diversions in the Realm of the Libido
That means that during childhood when love is offered by our parents, and still later by lovers, we cannot feel it. Repression has blocked our ability to receive input, even if that input is love. That is repression’s purpose: to keep external stimulation from rocking the internal boat.
Arthur Janov: Sex & The Subconscious: Perversions and Diversions in the Realm of the Libido
