| Repetition | Qualities (Attributes) | Manifestations |
|---|
| FETISH |
Spiritual or religious objects that hold heavy symbolic value and are used as conduits to
communicate with or be entranced by supernatural or spiritual forces, concepts or entities.
Sexual and/or commodity fetishism often, but not always, loses the spiritual aspect of the
fetish, and instead is mostly about feel, sound, taste, smell or sight of objects that hold
heavy symbolic value beyond their mere material value. Fetish objects either empower the human
or cause the human to give up personal power to a "higher" force. Fundamentally
fetishes are an attempt to reach a primal, deeper, or higher, transcendent part of the self. Fetishism
is a "going towards" something. | Objects used in ritual acts of a spiritual or
religious nature. Objects used in sex rituals with others or in masturbation rituals. Sometimes
the spiritual and sexual components of the human are both present in the fetish ritual. In any
case, the deepest, strongest, most powerful human inclinations are brought forth through the
fetish ritual. |
| ADDICTION | Chemical substance, drug,
type of food or drink used to make an abrupt, sometimes extreme change in consciousness, the
length and depth of which varies according to substance consumed. Fundamentally
addictions are an attempt to escape from something unpleasant, painful and tension-producing,
into something pleasant, painless and tension-releasing. Addictions are a "going away" from
something. | Alcohol, coffee, sugary foods, crunchy foods, pharmaceutical drugs, natural
drugs, adrenaline-rush inducing experiences such as extreme sports, extreme or forbidden forms
of sex, etc. |
| OBSESSION | Recurring thoughts or
fantasies with a specific theme. May remain non-material, abstract, or may be enacted into
relationships of matter. Labelled "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder" in the DSM.
Fundamentally obsessions are an attempt to control something, own something or
manipulate something for one's personal gain, or the desire to be the object of another's
obsession, domination and control. Obsessions are an attempt to "overpower or control"
something or someone, or to "be overpowered or controlled" by something or someone; to
surrender to a "higher power", either willingly or through force. Resistance and
surrender, sought by those who seek to experience Submission to a Dominator, is the desire to
be the object of another's obsession. | Fantasies or recurring thoughts, often with a
forceful or violent theme, always involving some form of control or domination, often with a
theme of forced sexual experiences, forced slavery, mutilation or death. Fantasies may or may
not be put into form and may or may not be sexual in nature. |
| COMMON THREADS OF ALL THREE | May or may
not have a compulsive quality. The three categories of fixations may overlap each other in
complex cases. Fixations often involve dichotomies such as Domination and Submission,
SadoMasochism, Bondage and Discipline, Powerful and Powerless, Master/Mistress and Slave,
Sacred and Profane and other oppositional forces that create intense emotional states. In the
case of dichotomous relationships, the main impetus is a power-exchange in which the object
being controlled goes through a process of resistance followed by surrender, giving up power,
while the controller or dominator gains personal power through causing or forcing the object of control
to surrender to the dominator's will. All fixations are ritualistic in nature, some may be
highly sexual while others are devoid of the sexual component. Fundamentally all types
of fixations are a kind of "primordial performance", motivated by the deepest emotional part of
the human organism. Rituals may be self-destructive, or self-empowering, depending on the
qualities and motivations of the fixation that gives rise to the ritual enactments. All fixations are
unconscious attempts to make drastic changes or breakthroughs in life or in one's
internal self. | May be a sudden onset or develop over a long, slow growth period. The
more complex and deep a person is, the more complex and deep their fixations will be. Fixations
are thoughtful, fantastic, or formal creations of the unconscious or primeval, primal part of
the human. All fixations ultimately have pure intentions, though they are often corrupted
through social and cultural conditionings. Successful rituals result in personal
transformations, resolutions, break-throughs, evolutions, ascendance, etc. Failed attempts at
unconscious motivations result in emotional disturbances. |
