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KMID : 0385320010120020206
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.206 ~ p.213
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A Psychoanalytic Comment of Food and SexFood and sex are key words in our time, but they have always been difficult issues through human history. Karl Marx challenged the food issue while Sigmund Freud was a pioneer in regards to the sex issue. The desire for food and sex is the most basic human need but failure to manage food and sex related problems can lead to enormous pain and tragedy. The more human society advances industrially, the greater and more numerous the implications of food and sex. The topic of the relationship between food and sex includes eating behavior and regression, the meaning of traditional food habits, sucking and biting patterns in sexual activity, food and aggression, asceticism and superego, food and sex as outlets of suppressed human desire, food and sex in mass culture, industrialized food and sex, etc. The alienation of the human mind from all relatedness is a matter for serious concern. We cannot be free from the primitive need for food and sex, but have an obligation to integrate and control them. In the end, when attempts compromise between excessively hedonic and strictly ascetic needs meet with failure, the ideal goal of the sane society and healthy individual becomes more remote. Metaphorically speaking, food and sex are neither poison nor milk. They are a precondition for human beings, but at the same time a heavy burden.
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Lee Byung-Wook
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Abstract
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Food and sex are key words in our time, but they have always been difficult issues through human history. Karl Marx challenged the food issue while Sigmund Freud was a pioneer in regards to the sex issue. The desire for food and sex is the most basic human need but failure to manage food and sex related problems can lead to enormous pain and tragedy. The more human society advances industrially, the greater and more numerous the implications of food and sex. The topic of the relationship between food and sex includes eating behavior and regression, the meaning of traditional food habits, sucking and biting patterns in sexual activity, food and aggression, asceticism and superego, food and sex as outlets of suppressed human desire, food and sex in mass culture, industrialized food and sex, etc. The alienation of the human mind from all relatedness is a matter for serious concern. We cannot be free from the primitive need for food and sex, but have an obligation to integrate and control them. In the end, when attempts compromise between excessively hedonic and strictly ascetic needs meet with failure, the ideal goal of the sane society and healthy individual becomes more remote. Metaphorically speaking, food and sex are neither poison nor milk. They are a precondition for human beings, but at the same time a heavy burden.
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KEYWORD
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Food, Sex, Pschoanalysis
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