Conflict and Distinction between Impulse of Desire and Impulse of Mind
Man is a complex creation of multiple systems and endless lusts, desires, needs, impulses, drives and motivations.
He is imprisoned by these where he is obliged to listen to one or the other, succumb to one or the other, satisfy one or the other. He can be, and is often the case, be imprisoned by one of these, be taken as a hostage by one of these or be totally enslaved by one of these.
However, clear distinction must be made between these lusts, desires and natural inborn impulses.
We ascribe a lust for earning money. This is a natural impulse for we realize the need of money and its exchange value for survival or living comfortably.
We have a desire to buy a car or a house. This is an impulse that is traced to its necessity, its advantages
and needs. We have an impulse by our sexual desire to satisfy the need for pleasure. At the long range our impulse for procreation is not an immediate goal as strong as the sexual satisfaction.
Progeny is a by-product for sexual desire.
Our desire to be rich is prompted by the advantages it gives. Our desire to have a lot of money, to enjoy the sense of gold and silver, whether in metal or jewelry, is a driving motivation that is hard to resist.
The desire to have children motivates us to take all steps and preparations for this end. Love, hate, fear, jealousy, envy are but few drives but are some of the strongest natural impulses and drives.
Our moral codes, natural or acquired, motivate us to recognize our lusts and impulses and make distinction between the two.
But in reality, and at the heart of it, is the natural impulse of our mind that recognizes and makes the actual distinction as if an already built system of recognition and distinction between desires, lusts and impulses.
If jealousy is described as the want to have the same things as others have then envy can be considered as the desire to deprive the others from what they have and acquire it oneself.
These impulses can be at times overwhelming and uncontrollable, The feeling that we have is as such. Even though the impulse of our mind a s regulator of things is there but is hushed by our desire to have.
Gustav Yung enlisted thirty two instincts with their proper motivations, behavior and reactions. Well, the list can be endless if you combine tow or more instincts together. The seven sins mentioned in the Bible do amply reflect the base drives for every human being.
Belief in God is considered as the deterrent factor to avoid these sins and vices.
According to the Freudian concept our lusts and impulses are in constant conflict and battle between the Id, the Ego and the Superego.
The natural impulse of the Id to steal, rape, kill enter into war hate and do all evil thing is quiet down by the ego and the Superego products of society, according to Freud, and products of natural law according to religious doctrines.
When man loses control then these base desires et loose and its satisfaction is completed.
We call the thieve and the murderer people who are sick and ought to have treatment but they simply satisfy a desire inborn in human nature. The society must punish the evil doer otherwise he is danger to the society.
How can we then explain, otherwise, these actions in our society?
But according to natural law we are naturally endowed with the impulse of discerning what is good and what is evil. Then it rests for man to choose and go either way.
By simply being conscious of good and evil and making distinction between the two, there must be an built in system to do so.
This can be considered as the impulse of mind, or soul, There is an inner voice that tells us this.
Thus, man has the desires to do evil and then has the impulse to recognize what he is doing, or feeling.
A Mafiosi, or a terrorist, knows what he, or she, is doing. He knows the responsibility of his action, but nevertheless blinds himself by one excuse or pretext or another to do what he feels is wrong.
We all have tendencies to think good and think bad, We all have tendencies to do good and evil. We go either way.
The mind, or soul, has a natural impulse to recognize and make distinction between the two. It is our responsibility to go either way. Every man, or woman, has this built in system of recognition and distinction.
Every individual person has the free will to think and act in either way. The choice is individualistic not communal.
The desire motivation over mind impulse is discerned in man's accepting or rejecting to recognize God as a creator of the universe.
Man looks into the universe and makes his free choice in believing in a creator or disbelieving in such a creator.
God becomes immediately the subject of rejection and acceptance at one and the same time. Every individual person undergoes this oppositional paradox.
There are those who deny the existence of God out of sheer hatred for God and there those who believe God out of sheer love for God.
It all depends which way the individual submits himself, whether to his desires to reject or desires to accept and submit himself.
Arrogance and self-conceit rejects the God need and humbleness and self denial facing the creation admits the existence of a God creator.
It seems to be man has equal tendencies toward evil and good and his mind must lead him to what is good for him. In this man has complete responsibility.
Conflict and Distinction between Impulse of Desire and Impulse of Mind
By: mardini
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