I recall reading some of Freud and whilst some of it seemed far fetched in the extreme other parts seemed ugly and reality!
I have a puzzle I'm pondering: I'm annoyed with myself because I cannot concisely and succinctly pose the question in a cryptic fashion but here goes-
Evil v's Holy and whether it is a reality or a construct of humanity for the advantaged!
Take human sexuality as just one arena to explore the above!
Freud indicated much of humanity oscillates around envy for the male phallus!
It being the focus of female desire in certain 'attractive' males and ensuring they reach the maximum state of female pleasure!
And my hunch is that all males tune into the subliminal nature of this female 'envy' and desire to fulfill their desire!
Problem!!
Any male perceiving themselves unable to fill the 'role' will become intimidated and withdrawn from the very females he has a natural inclination to want to please and associate with!
Any male perceiving themselves to be more than able to fulfill that role posed by females will likely openly actively inteact with the females he desires and experience confirmation if what he feels is reality.
The withdrawn male will have biological advances taking place which almost force misguided situations and ones less natural than the 'confident' male!
Thus without even thinking about religion or what is evil and good - natural selection has set up situations which show some males will be accepted and welcomed by females on a journey through life and some will be rejected both by themselves, their inept advances and their own biologically enforced reactions which for some may involve wrongdoing!
Now add religion into the equation and you may even have forced scenarios where an attractive male is disuaded from female contacts by religious dogmas and ultimately loses out on how to more easily interact with them and reads such to men he is amongst the class of males he perceives as 'disposeable' by females or 'non - guarantees' for sexual fulfillment.
And I focus on this 'male ' situation since it appears to me there are more actions, classed criminal, against males in terms of sexual incidents than female and I wonder if it is a reality that males are more evil and females more holy or if in fact we are all missing something that it needs addressing?
Rarely do I imagine any government or ruling class sits down and attempts to resolve the above issues without bringing good and evil into the equation?
Is it a good - evil question or one of genetic good fortune giving advantages to lucky individuals who natural selection favoured in their never having to commit 'wrongs'' to fulfill biological urges since an imaginary god gave them more than their fair share? And then the 'holy' religious thinking further oppressing sex creating additional biological 'inner conflicts' further distilling the whole status quo above!
Which leads me onto my final question:
Should we view ourselves more in terms of 'natural selection' or is evil and holy the reality of humanity?