CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Original, groundbreaking theory explodes in "Are We Humans Born Too Soon?" fueling renewed controversy and critical thinking about the origin of human nature. It asserts that we became uniquely "human" because we are born too soon -- born before our species programming is completed. Consider how human babies are born -- helpless and mindless -- their brain and physiological systems incompletely organized. They require months of "loving care" just to survive and years to mature. The brain and systems are incomplete and must become organized after birth. This is unique to humans! Plants and animals are born, hatch, or germinate after their species programming is completed - requiring only minimal parental support to "jump start" their completely organized programming. Only humans are born in so helpless a state. The theory explains that early birth occurs to accommodate the increasing head size and to allow it to pass through the small birth canal. The head (with its superior brain) must be released prematurely to allow infant and mother to survive.
We humans are a unique anomaly, born incomplete but endowed with a superior brain that enables us to survive despite the deficiency.
The consequences of this traumatic interruption to genetic programming are enormous. The most important is probably the "psychic sense of incompleteness" from which humans suffer. Others include the development of our advanced brain and ability to reason, our dynamic and complex emotions, creative psyche, and even our infantile, compulsive sexuality. All evolved as compensations for the incompleteness. The psychic sense of incompleteness explains why we organize into governments; seek fulfillment in our arts and sciences; worship perfection in our heroes and gods and search endlessly for answers to the unanswerable.
The theory also explains why we humans are obsessed with our sexuality -- asserting that since our sexual programming is interrupted, it is as Freud described, infantile. It is this powerful sense of incompleteness that drives our obsession with sexuality. We compensate by endlessly seeking stimulation and gratification - consumed with "romantic love" and the powerful satisfaction of sexual orgasm. (Note that a psychic explanation for why orgasm occurs is given.) We are even incomplete as a natural species. The programming of who we are must be learned. We learn to be human during childhood using fantasy play and humans as models. With psychic support, our survival instinct will enable us to organize into psychically healthy, independent human beings. However, if the natural instinct is opposed by repeated abuse, the child will repress his sense of self. He will be unable to develop a strong, independent psychic self. He will be forced to remain a psychic infant - emotionally unstable and dependent. This abnormal denial of self is in deadly conflict with the natural instinct for self-preservation and self-fulfillment. It is the conflict between the powerful natural instinct for self-fulfillment and the equally powerful, abnormal programming of denial that cause mental illness.
Are We Humans Born Too Soon? by Grace J. Nathan, M.S. with
John A. Friedman, Ph.D
Publication Date: June 6, 2009
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