The conjecture you offer here has been floating about in philosophy and psychology circles for some time. It was a view heavily promoted by Freud, who used the term sublimation to describe the diversion of unfulfilled (sexual) desires into constructive pursuits. A search of this term may yield further findings.
Hm, yes, I was a bit familiar with Freud, but I was hoping for ties to biochemistry; it’s one thing to intuit that the mind has n bits of energy & forces sloshing around and if they can’t come out in sex they have to come out elsewhere, and entirely another to have a specific, materialist model of what’s going on. I haven’t found anything for the latter.
The conjecture you offer here has been floating about in philosophy and psychology circles for some time. It was a view heavily promoted by Freud, who used the term sublimation to describe the diversion of unfulfilled (sexual) desires into constructive pursuits. A search of this term may yield further findings.
Hm, yes, I was a bit familiar with Freud, but I was hoping for ties to biochemistry; it’s one thing to intuit that the mind has n bits of energy & forces sloshing around and if they can’t come out in sex they have to come out elsewhere, and entirely another to have a specific, materialist model of what’s going on. I haven’t found anything for the latter.