Basic instincts. hunting and gathering

Human instincts are also determined by gender. These instincts carry programs for the preservation of the species in the continuity of generations.

female instincts oriented:

- to conceive a child

- for the birth of a child

- to serve the child in the initial stages of his life.

A woman, under the leadership of her instincts, serves the needs of the child.

Male instincts focused on serving women and offspring. A man through the instincts of sexual desire is psychologically subordinate to a woman.

The term "sex bomb" in many historical circumstances should be taken literally - it is a weapon of mass destruction, the damaging effect of which can extend hundreds of years into the future. Examples of this kind of sex bombs are the biblical Esther, the Jewess Malka - the mother of Vladimir - the baptist of Russia.

This orientation of the instincts is due to the fact that the instincts of the Homo sapiens species are built in such a way as to ensure the maximum rate of population growth. At the same time, the woman's instincts are focused on serving the child in the first months and years of his life and the struggle for "the best place in the sun." And the instincts of a man are focused on the suppression of "hare" behavior programs ( “Our business is not to give birth, put it in, took it out and run”) and to serve a woman with children. It puts a man - the bearer of the animal mentality- into psychological dependence on a woman and is able to turn it into a tool through which a woman reaches the “best place in the sun”, competing with other females of her own kind.

In the culture of a society where the animal structure of the psyche predominates quantitatively, it is considered normal and quite acceptable that all this animal-instinctive has its continuation into culture and is expressed in various cultural shells: one of them is fashion, and above all, women's fashion, fashion “high”, as well as for the most part specifically male swearing (in Russia - obscenity).

In the book "Woman in the Ancient World" (E. Vardiman. M., "Nauka", 1990, p. 15), a reproduction of a rock painting on the theme of the life of society in matriarchy, found in a cave in Africa on the territory of modern Algeria, was published (Fig. 7 -one).

A man hunting with a spear and a bow. His woman "provides the rear." They seemed to be minding their own business. But long winding a man's penis is that woman's "property" - is inserted to her where it should be, and like a diving hose, or rather a cable for remote control of a robot, extends from a woman to her husband's place of work.

The commentary of the author of the named book to this drawing says: “The raised hands of a woman should, of course, be understood as a ritual gesture: the feminine principle is clearly associated with a witchcraft function; a woman induces higher powers to grant rich hunting grounds.

It is possible that the ancient author of the drawing really tried to express this idea about "the mediation of a woman before higher powers." But it is possible that even then it was a caricature of “vaginocracy” (from “vagina” - the vagina, and “cratia” - power), in which the “woman” almost always - in direct communication and remotely - controls the “man” as her own. biorobot. However, at the same time, she can also be “not a mistress to herself”, being in the power of the same that rules over her “man”.

In any case, art is one of the ways of knowing and describing Life, as a result of which the artist is able to objectively show what goes beyond his own understanding and even contradicts his convictions. The idea of ​​matriarchy and vaginocracy on the basis of the predominance of the animal psyche system in society is better not to visibly express than the author of the shown rock drawing, forgotten by people, did.

Human life is based on three basic instincts:

• The instinct of self-preservation
• Hierarchical instinct
• The instinct to procreate

Whether we like it or not, voluntarily or involuntarily, our whole life is essentially these three instincts on which our survival, social realization and simple human happiness depend.

The instinct of self-preservation

It ensures the preservation of one's own life, oneself as a unit of living matter. It works in critical situations, catastrophes, various threats to life, diseases, acute and chronic stress.

Hierarchical instinct

It determines our social behavior, our desire to occupy a position in society, success in work, education, the desire for career growth, advancement in business, politics, sports, the hierarchy of relations in a team, family, society, rivalry, intraspecific struggle, intrasexual struggle (women with a woman, a man with a man), clarification of gender relations (man and woman).

The instinct to procreate

Determines all our sexual behavior, gender identity, puberty, reproduction. Behind this instinct is the preservation of humanity as a living species on planet Earth.

For the implementation of these basic instincts, a person spends his hormonal reserve. So a person spends androgens on the hierarchical instinct, estrogens on the implementation of sexual function, and homeostasis hormones on the instinct of self-preservation. All these hormones are produced from a single precursor.

If we take all the available progesterone in the human body as 100%, then we can conditionally imagine that all three basic instincts should be provided by the hormone at approximately 33.3%. Perhaps this is so. But then the level of claims in all three directions should be minimal. With increasing loads in any of the three directions, there will be a compensatory increase in exactly those hormones that are needed to implement this function. This will happen due to a decrease in other hormones. With excessive prolonged loads and stresses, this will lead to a rapid depletion of the system and may be the cause of the death of the body.

In order for a woman to have enough hormonal reserves for female realization, she must have a lower level of social aspirations and a level of stress, then testosterone will be used for estrogen production, ovulation, a normal menstrual cycle, love, family hearth, childbearing, and the level of female diseases will be minimal. A woman will not have a desire to have abortions, and pregnancy and childbirth will proceed favorably.

But the continuation of the human race is not exactly a biological process.

I asked the same question many times in my lectures: “Tell me, please, when does a person have a desire to have children?” The answer was always the same: “When you have an apartment, a car, money, education, etc. etc.”, i.e. certain social levels of development have been achieved, material wealth has been accumulated, there is work, a stable source of income. Everything is mixed up in the minds of people.

No one has ever responded to this question in the following way: “When I meet a man (woman) from whom I want to have children!”

If in wildlife the desire to give birth to offspring is strictly determined by the sexual behavior of the female - an egg matures in her, and the male has sexual arousal in response to this, then in a person the desire to have children has shifted from the biological plane to the social one. In order to have children, a person needs an apartment as a nest for offspring, money as a source of food for future offspring, social guarantees for a woman (maternity leave, child allowance, keeping her job, and in general it was not bad for a woman to be married). In this context, the husband acts as the guarantor of providing the woman with her vital biological needs, i.e. provides her instinct for procreation not only with his sperm, but also with material wealth. And marriage for a woman in this sense is biological need, not social.

I had patients for whom marriage was not only sufficient, but also a necessary condition (a stamp in the passport - this should be legal marriage) for pregnancy. There is such a contingent of women who are able (unconsciously) to suppress their ovulation so much that until they solve all their social problems, they cannot afford to become pregnant. This process is not controlled (unconscious).

On the surface, there will be a woman's concern about the absence of children, and she will even go to the doctors and be examined. But in fact, ovulation and the process of reproduction itself will be tabooed (suppressed) by social desires (finish a house, buy a car, pay off debts, etc. etc.). Therefore, in order to help such women find female happiness, her long-term work on herself is required, and preferably accompanied by a psychotherapist.

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Centuries have passed, but formed over millennia, male and female instincts have not disappeared anywhere and continue to live in us ...

In prehistoric times, male Homo sapiens hunted and females gathered. It's the 21st century, but the male and female instincts have not disappeared anywhere.

A man sees the target in front of him, minor details do not interest him. A woman pays attention to little things more often, her peripheral vision is better developed. A man can walk all day in soiled trousers and not even notice the embarrassment - this causes only a sweet smile in the surrounding women. But if a woman on a first date has arrows on pantyhose, then this is a real tragedy! A man who does not understand anything will then puzzle for a long time - what did he say or do that the passion suddenly blushed, invented some kind of stupid pretext and disappeared.

Entering the room, a man always sits facing the door, or at least sideways. That's right: if an enemy rushes into the cave, encroaching on prey, the male must be the first to detect and kill him. When a man walks down the street and feels that someone is breathing down his back, he instinctively clenches his fists and turns around. A man clenched his fists even if he sees a group of other unfamiliar men standing nearby, even if they have a completely peaceful look.

Women to this day love to touch small objects in their hands - buttons, shreds, cutlery, jewelry, fishing out the best from the common heap.

A typical picture in the vegetable department of a supermarket: customers of all ages and classes crowd around a container with some penny beets, swear, shoved, and strive to snatch the products they like from each other. If the hour of the pre-holiday sale in an elite boutique has struck, then a general squabble can lead to torn hair and scratched faces. It’s better for a man not to intervene - otherwise, all the women instantly unite and start torturing him alone.

Men easily part with unnecessary things, but they are happy to collect their favorite trophies, be it TRP cups, fancy gadgets or tin soldiers. There are not so many true collectors among women, but the fair sex is more likely to suffer from "squirrel syndrome" - an item brought into the house remains there for centuries.

The love of men for all kinds of games and sports entertainment should not be explained by mere infantilism. The game is a training before a real fight, even if it never takes place, and a simulation of the same hunt. Women prefer to indulge themselves in shopping, and these are clear echoes of primitive gathering - go around all the surrounding shops, turn everything around, try it on, feel it over, and then return home and declare: there is nothing in the shops. This means that the woman not only satisfied her internal, purely feminine needs, but also fulfilled her duty to her relatives - she examined the territory and accounted for the wasted time.

Men show hunting instincts in the intimate sphere as well. A woman who still needs to be fought for is valued more - a fact. Although absolutely impregnable individuals do not attract men - why waste energy when there are a lot of other objects of hunting around, but you want to eat. During sex, some men, “teddy bears” in ordinary life, behave rudely and aggressively - nothing surprising, because at any moment the female can change her mind and run away, which is why she needs to be held tight. For the same reason, men tend to quickly bring things to a victorious end - to the displeasure of those females who are not going to run anywhere.

Women who, by hook or by crook, make their way to secular parties and shoot their eyes in all directions there are also called hunters. Yes, but they do not hunt men, but their tight wallets. It's more of a gathering - the more wealthy fans a woman has, the more she will get cherished bumazeks with numbers from them. And one more thing: if a good fairy flies to an average woman and gives her a constantly updated wardrobe with the most expensive, sophisticated and sexy outfits, but at the same time demands to completely give up sex, the woman will not hesitate for a second - of course, she will prefer outfits.

Nowadays, hunting instincts can play a cruel joke with a man. It is not necessary to get food at the risk of life, to perform feats in the name of the family or homeland, most males also do not have to, it is not even necessary to put everyone on the shoulder blades and shoot the best of all - and the last squishy bespectacled always has a chance to win a woman, even if modest and an obscure librarian. A man begins to be lazy, shallow, weaken - not only in body, but above all in spirit. Another point is that a man is tuned exclusively to the result. If the desired result is not achieved, a man falls into despair, loses a sense of confidence, closes in his complexes, and in his old age reproaches himself for the aimlessly lived years - life really passed by, because the man overlooked and ignored everything good, bright and joyful.

But female collectors know how to catch the buzz from the process. Having gone to the forest for berries, the girls sing soulful songs there. Knitting - collecting knots in orderly rows - has a beneficial effect on the female nervous system, calms and puts thoughts in order, and a ready-made sweater that warms the body is a nice bonus. Hours and exhausting (according to men) sculpting dumplings is not only an important preparation for the future, but also an excuse to meet with friends. While the eminent artist, experiencing a creative crisis, breaks his brushes in a rage and throws an easel against the wall, his wife takes a notebook sheet, a ballpoint pen and draws Cinderella kissing Prince Charming. Let her picture never be shown at the exhibition, but at the same time she feels much happier.

It is useless to suppress instincts - they have been formed for thousands of years. But it is necessary to control - we are not animals.

And men and women should also respect the differences in the behavior of both - after all, by nature itself, they are predestined to conduct a joint household.

That is, to engage in hunting and gathering, albeit in a modern way.

The term natural instinct arose even in ancient Greece, even then the thinkers of Hellas noticed that people have behavioral responses that contribute to survival. For example, barely touching a hot object, we quickly withdraw our hand so as not to get a serous burn, the door slams - we turn around at a sharp sound to check if there is danger. All this is a manifestation of the natural instinct of human self-preservation.

What are natural human instincts

Instincts (as well as biological motivations and emotions) are innate forms of behavior. The instinct is made up of many reflexes. Reflexes are divided into vital (food, drink, defensive), zoosocial, which are aimed at interacting with their own kind (sexual, parental), and research (for example, an orienting reflex, a reflex of freedom, manifested by the desire to avoid any restrictions).

Instincts are encoded in the hemocode and absolutely all people have them: me, you, and the passers-by we see from the window. Genetically embedded instincts can be influenced - strengthened, weakened through upbringing, stereotypical behavior, religion, morality, for example, due to improper upbringing, the self-preservation instinct in a child can decrease or increase too much. In dysfunctional families where only the whip method is used, teenagers often become uncontrollable, subconsciously causing aggression on themselves. Due to the lack of parental care, their instinct for self-preservation is weakened. In children over whom adults are shaking, on the contrary, this instinct is hypertrophied - such children are afraid to take a step on their own.

Differences between natural human instincts and animal instincts

How does human instinctive behavior differ from animal behavior? Humans, unlike animals; can control their instincts, hide them, and yet, by analyzing the behavior of two-legged and four-legged brethren in certain situations, you can see what I have in common. Experiments were conducted in the USA that showed when a team is formed (for example, office workers), they necessarily have a leader, conditional slaves, one or two independent individuals trying to oppose the leader, and a clown who can only grimace. It's the same with animals. Watch, for example, a pack of dogs - you will see the same hierarchy in them as in a reasonable human team. After all, instincts are a powerful biological base that can be weakened by morality, law, but it is unrealistic to completely destroy it.

Patients with severe psychosis. in which the mass of neurons decreases, often suffer from gluttony, cannot restrain their sexual impulses. Cases are described when, on the basis of a disinhibited sexual instinct, mentally unbalanced people committed crimes.

The influence of hormones on natural human instincts

Imagine that a person wants to eat. His blood glucose level is low, and the need for food is unsatisfied. Emotions arise - anger, irritation, displeasure (which is especially acute in men). And this is great, because the so-called sympathetic nervous system is activated, the production of hormones that break down glycogen in the liver, from which glucose is formed, is stimulated. The more angry a person is, the more necessary substances are released. Moreover, hungry male anger dictates a lifestyle - in cave times, a born earner went to mammoths (the dominant motivation aimed at searching), now he seeks to earn more in order to satisfy his need for food.

The relationship between hormone levels and sexual instinct is very pronounced. The hormone testosterone is responsible for sex drive in both men and women. It is produced in the ovaries (in women) and adrenal glands (in men), and this process is regulated by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. This is reflected in sexual behavior. By the way, representatives of the stronger sex with a high level of testosterone have great masculine strength, which they retain until their advanced years. A 100-year-old grandfather, the same age as the October Revolution, once came to see me. Even the passport showed where it is written that he was born on October 6, 1917! The conversation with him turned out almost like a joke. I asked. What problems? And in response I heard: Two weeks ago ... sexual intercourse did not work out. And my very elderly patient was in his right mind

The difference between female and male natural instincts

Which instincts are more dominant in women, and which - in men? Women have a more developed parental instinct. The maternal instinct is stronger than the paternal one, and this is inherent in nature: biologically, the male is created “to scatter the seed, and the female must raise offspring, in Britain they conducted a study on the topic “Who remembers the offense longer”, It turned out that both men and women are offended equally often, but the first step to ladies make reconciliation... This is a manifestation of maternal instinct; a woman needs a male who will help her take care of her offspring,

Natural human instincts that animals do not have

Not! What would you say about purely human instincts, allegedly acquired in the process of socialization. All of them can be reduced to banal biology. Sometimes a person imagines that he is very far removed from the animal world. Let me remind you that the genes of gray mice are closest to our genes. I will list other similarities: memory. Animals have emotions, monkeys have creative inclinations, but the existence of the thinking of representatives of the fauna is still in doubt. True, some neurophysiologists say: The dog thinks! - The only thing that animals do not have is personality: it means that they do not have morality either. However, social qualities appear when a person lives among his own kind. Modern Mowgli, which are found among monkeys or wolves, are not people.

Was Sigmund Freud right when he said that everything has a sexual beginning? By and large, life begins with sex - I mean the birth of a child. Yes, sexual desire is a powerful enough engine, but I would not give the first place only to him. I don't think Freud is entirely right. Man is a balanced conscious and unconscious animal; both principles govern his actions. By the way, some scientists, developing Freud's thought, argue: yes, the unconscious plays a big role, but the unconscious is far from sexuality. Let us recall, for example, the principle of pleasure raihe, according to which we move from pleasure to pleasure. And yet, the sexual instinct can be completely suppressed only with medications (in particular, powerful hormonal therapy) or surgically by removing the appendages and ovaries. By volitional effort (auto-training) it is impossible to completely suppress the sexual instinct. To understand the teachings of Freud, one must study his biography. “He was a deeply unhappy person. He had problems in his sexual life and then explained everything by the sexual beginning! In my opinion, Sigmund Freud exaggerated somewhat, but there is still a rational grain in his theory.

The influence of human sexual instinct on the choice of partner

Without any doubts! An interesting study was carried out in Britain, which was then included in the popular science films of the BBC. In a group of women and men, each participant in the experiment was asked to write requests to their intended life partner, compared the questionnaires using a computer and received a result like this: “Lady A is perfect for Mr. M.” Then the couple was introduced and invited the woman to rate her interlocutor. So: Lady L actually gave Mr. M low scores, although the computer program showed: this person fully meets her requirements! What's the matter? It turns out that it is impossible to absolutely compare the setting I consciously want and what actually works. Some deeper things play a role here than the parameters of height, weight, social status or belonging to a zodiac sign. ? Shoots - a lot of factors - both instinctive and social. It is very difficult to say which of them is the main one.

Men are looking for an object that meets their criteria for female attractiveness. Initially, during the period of youthful hypersexuality, this object may not correspond to any parameters at all: it is enough that it be just a woman. Then the image of a lady is formed, and the gentleman becomes more selective. But I think that a real man does not look for a partner with a certain eye color or breast size, but perceives (or does not perceive!) A woman as a whole. If a person is looking for a companion, for example, always with blue eyes or small feet, there is reason to suspect that he has mental disorders.

How natural instincts affect behavior

When a woman wants to attract the attention of a man, she, as a rule, preens herself: she does makeup. a new hairstyle by other elephants, is engaged in grooming. In animals, grooming (care for the skin, coat, teeth) is an innate reflex, and in Primates, hair picking is in the nature of caress. That is, "cleaning the feathers", the lady unconsciously gives the gentleman a sign that she is taking care of herself and thereby increasing her value. Well, a man, wanting to conquer a woman, subconsciously speak to her in a low voice - this is an indicator that he is all right with testosterone.

It is no coincidence that they say that scars adorn a man: they are a sign of aggressiveness, that is, a high level of testosterone! By the way, when a boyfriend wants to express his interest in a woman, he spreads his feathers: he says compliments, sings and plays the guitar, composes poetry, And in general, he is engaged in marriage dances, like our smaller brothers.

The nature of maternal natural instinct

What is the nature of maternal instinct? The maternal instinct will be transmitted genetically - it cannot be otherwise. Its essence is in the desire of a man, taking care of him. And in an effort to do everything to get pregnant. Moreover, during ovulation, when fertilization is most likely, a woman's sexual desire reaches its peak. She becomes prettier, secretes pheromones and shows with all her being that she wants intimacy. During pregnancy, sexual activity will fall - and this is also the essence of the maternal instinct: now the main task of wives types is to bear a child. The desire is especially weak in the first (there is a risk of failure) and the third trimesters (the time to give birth is coming). When the child was born; it must be immediately applied to the chest, so that both the mother and the baby make the first, very important for both, contact. And so it happens from year to year - in all generations of mammals. How will a woman behave after childbirth. It all depends on upbringing. Maternal instinct in daughters can (and should!) be developed from an early age: buy dolls for them, surround them with purely girlish things.

Obstetricians know one trick; the mother, who knowingly warned that she wants to abandon the child, should be given the baby in her arms immediately after birth, or even better, offer her to feed a hundred at least once. Why? Because at this moment a very powerful maternal instinct awakens in a woman and after that it will be almost impossible to leave the child in the maternity hospital! Unfortunately, unfortunate mothers also know about this feature, which is why they avoid contact with babies.

The maternal instinct does not appear - it is laid down by nature. When a girl is born, she already has neural connections. which will lead to the realization of this instinct After this, a dominant motivation is needed, a stimulus that will launch the strongest mechanism. For people, this incentive is a child. The current trend, when women refuse to give birth in favor of a career, is it an atrophy of the maternal instinct or its artificial suppression?

This is a problem for the whole world, and especially for developed countries. And this is not about the atrophy of instinct, people do not change, in order for a person to change, more than one millennium must pass. Refusal to have a child is a negative impact of socialization, when the purpose of life is replaced and success, pleasure, wealth for one's own sake come to the fore. Alas, the suppression of the maternal instinct is costly for women. As a rule, they experience an existential crisis at a certain point in their lives - they begin to run around psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, pay crazy money just to calm down. Because they can’t cope with the feeling of loneliness caused, for example, by meeting a friend who is worse financially, but is raising children. The conflict of instinct and social behavior can lead to very serious mental disorders.

paternal instinct

The paternal instinct, like the maternal one, refers to the parental instinct. What is expressed? Of course, in the protection of offspring! And yet I want to say one unpleasant thing, we are touched when we see a lion on television screens, allowing lion cubs to crawl on it. However, for some reason, they hide from the viewers that lionesses protect their cubs from their own fathers - a lion is able to kill a lion cub if he wants to mate with a female. The fact is that a lioness who raises offspring does not allow a male to approach her, and having lost her cubs, she is again ready to mate. Note to you and the biology of paternal and maternal instincts. In people, the development of the paternal instinct, of course, is strongly influenced by education. Children, like monkeys, adopt the behavior of their parents. Moreover, this instinct in a man cannot disappear, because, like all others, it is embedded in the genes. But it can be suppressed by negative life experiences, a negative environment... For example, in criminal gangs, where women are despised, they treat children badly. But tear such a person out of the criminal world, place him in a normal society, and he will become different.