Wednesday, August 27, 2003
wrath continuance
Now the physical mechanism of tickling is not that well understood. (its thought to be associated with the sense of pressure) Nor is it really known why some people are more ticklish than others. Nonetheless, it's clear that it isn't a mere idle diversion, but rather a profoundly ambigous act fraught with lots of mucho bizarro psychosexual implications. Consider for instance, you cannot tickle yourself. According to darwin, its cause 'the precise point to be tickled must not be known'... in a sense its a mental trick as well as a physical one. From this we can deduce not only does it take two to tickle but the sensation is associated with a loss of control over the relationship. Consider the fine line between pleasure and pain, you tickle babies to entertain them, but some people suffer by being caused to enjoy something(i.e. laugh) too much.
Meerloo one of the only scientists to study laughter in depth, believed that the idea of being "tickled to death" is not real death but a metaphor. i.e. sexual surrender. He says "In a deeper sense, being tickled to death means taking part in sexual orgasm and experiencing the sterbe und werde feelings (to die and to be resureccted) provoked by deep ecstatic sexual satisfaction ... the clitoris is in other langauges called the organ of being tickled or titillated (in dutch: kitelaar) All these words are also related to itch, the old english 'yicchen:' a combination of restless hankering and irritation, of ambivilant yearning after fun and the taboo against giving in to that yearning... 'I'm being tickled to death' means that the pleasure is too much for me' So therefore if you are ticklish it obviously means that you're a putrid swamp of repressed psychopathic compulsions. See? we learn stuff everyday.
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