The psychology of a pedophile

[Anders Lindman]

I described in another thread how the psychology of a murderer has to to with a desire to control death, which is impossible according to the human belief system, so a false sense of control is achieved by controlling the death of one's shadow, projected onto other people.

Then what about other things, other pathological states of psychology, such as pedophilia. Does pedophilia also have to do with a wish to control death? Absolutely. The only thing a person knows about that really can conquer death is sex. That's the only mechanism in nature that has prevented humans from becoming extinct. Sex with another adult person at an equal age can only give a person children, but having a child is not the same thing as conquering one's own death, and so sex becomes pathologically attached to conquering one's own death in a reversed and projected way; having sex with a child symbolizes the misguided attempt to use the mechanisms of sex to conquer one's own death.

:( :eek:

[Anders Lindman]

Is then the pedophile projecting his or her shadow onto the child? No. As I have used the shadow here it means the "not me" that I don't like. In the case of a murderer it is definitely the shadow that is projected onto victim.

Instead of the shadow we could use the term 'mirror'. The mirror is the "not me" within. The ego is the "me" within. The ego and the mirror are two sides of the same coin which we sometimes call personality. Where, then, is the shadow? The shadow is the dark side of the mirror, the "not me" that I don't like, but the mirror also has a light side which is the "not me" that I like.

So in the case of the pedophile the ego tries to merge sexually with the light side of the mirror represented by the child. The difference between pedophilia and ordinary sex, is that in pedophilia the requirement is that the child must be unable to 'create' a baby, because it is the pedophile's own ego that is trying to defeat death, and creating a baby would defeat death but only for the baby, not defeat the death of the pedophile's own ego.

[supertzar]

I don't know. That sounds kind of "overthought" to me. I think it is usually more like the person is living out the imprint they got when they were abused, only this time they are the one in control.