Sunday, May 25, 2008

"Lust Telepathy"

Huffington Post blogger Dr. Belisa Vranich writes in Lust Telepathy: An Unexplored Psychological Phenomenon, writes about the connection between couples that allows them to feel 'almost telepathically connected'. She describes it as a brain activity similar to the high a drug addict feels.

It is a strange thing that happens between a couple. You can feel it when it happens to you. And sometimes you can see it when it happens to others. And when it happens to one person but not the other it is the stuff of tragic unrequited love. And all of these are being mapped to parts of the brain.

So, if these experiences have to do with neurons and neurotransmitters and the electrical circuitry of our brains, is there a non-verbal communication taking place? And I don't mean batting eyelashes. Is there a level of transmittal between electrons that takes place without the complex processing of bringing an emotion to consciousness and assigning verbal signifiers?

And for people who do not easily bring emotions to consciousness and who do not easily translate neuron sensations into the abstraction of language with its assignment of signifiers to signifieds, is there some way for them to communicate?

And why are some people more able to comprehend their feelings than others? Or more able to make that intense connection?

Vranich writes "Classic psychology explains that the "merging" feeling--the well-sung "losing yourself in another" moment--is something that resembles the feeling infants have of being connected to their mothers, their gaze ("mirroring") being an intrinsic part of the development of the self."

Is their something in the maternal bonding process that needs to take place in order for the adult mind to have the capacity to bond with another?

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