Charlie Rose

REMant  03/27/2009 04:36 PM Report

Not all women are the same, surely. I am not sure the physical has much to do with it either, so I would not separate sex from love in general. I would suppose that a deep level all women, like all animals, are interested in mating, but on the other hand they are certainly, like all animals, pretty choosy, and even animals show distinctly different social traits. So I would certainly divide the population according to three quite different social types and related personalites: traditional; commercial; and, Platonic. It is typical of behavioral scientists to ignore these distinctions and focus on just one. In traditional society there is no absence of love, but it is jealous, while in commercial society it is a matter of attachment and wears the face of bribery, and in Platonic society it is the result of self-understanding. I also think that we tend to go through life building up a composite image of those with whom we have successful relations in these various senses and apply it when see others similar, many times meaning simply someone looking like ourselves. One thing I would certainly not expect anything profitable from is the study of the Freudian sort of perversions.