LOVE AND
SEXUALITY IN PLATINA, SEPIA AND CONIUM
Dr. Marcela N. Casais
(Spanish
version)
The Materia Medica shows us a
great number of variations in then way of feeling and expressing love. In
Platina, Sepia and Conium, affection and sexuality display deviations that
characterize them. Platina
can feel love only for himself, Sepia´s
expression of love is blocked and in Conium
the incompetence of love is ought to his feeling of guilt and weakness.PLATINA
Love in Platina is related to his
narcissism and egotism. He feels himself so important that everything
begins and ends in himself, to the point of needing other people only as
spectators and admirers.Patina’s suffering lays in his feeling
of greatness and solitude. The forsaken
feeling with the delusion of not belonging to his own family and the
sensation of being alone in the world, makes his relationship with other
people very difficult.Platina feels other people are to
him inferior, specially her kids, and she hates them because they are not
good enough. Her contempt for them is so great, that she wants to kill
them, and it is evident in these symptoms: abortion and threaten of
abortion. It is the unique remedy in an interesting rubric: “tendency
to abortion in women who have had children”. It seems that her
disillusion for that kid who doesn’t fill her expectations, makes her
decide that it is not worth having more descendents. That is why her
sexual desire increases during menses, when it is impossible to get
pregnant; we also find her in the rubric sterility and has ailments in
childbed and labor.Platina loves making ostentation
so that others can see he is a great person, that is why he squanders to
be appreciated. But he’s avaricious with his family, since they are
inferior and don’t worth the trouble.Being a Patina’s child is a
real suffering, because despite being affectionate, he is usually
dictatorial, obstinate, intolerant to contradiction, contemptuous and
cruel. He is so haughty, that he can’t apologize, like Nat M.The superiority feeling is also
present in the sexuality, with excessive and premature desire. The
characteristics of his sexual desire are violence and insatiability.
Enjoyment is absent, he can’t find satisfaction in the other because he
is not at his level. This is expressed in women with vaginism and vaginal
insensibility during coition and with precocity in ejaculation in men.The Platina female has voluptuous
sensation similar to coitus, with anxiety and palpitations, this and the
increased sexual desire may be the genesis of nymphomania. But it is
interesting that this genital hypersensitivity to touch is also the origin
of the painful coition without enjoyment, and therefore aversion to sex.The sexual desire increases when
she is lying, and in virgins with obsession of being married.The loving theme in the Platina
male is the same as in female, it is characterized by the violence in the
symptoms and has both increase in the desire and sexual aversion. So we
can see great genital excitability with fists of sexual desire and violent
erections, increased by the simple fact of touching a woman. But because
of his contempt for others, the orgasm is absent, and this predisposes him
to masturbation.Erections also may be
troublesome, incomplete and without desire. The priapism is frequent.
Coition and ejaculation are painful. These symptoms usually drive him to
sexual aversion, but he can’t avoid erotic dreams that end with
pollutions.The characteristic of Platina is
the high intensity of the sensations generated in him, but frustrated when
he must intercourse with other person. So, he presents great desire but
the coitus is painful and the orgasm is absent.SEPIA
Kent says that in Sepia
“love is not shown as affection”, he means that love exists, but
it manifestation is benumbed and cannot be expressed. There is no absence
of emotions but the intention of escape from them.All the love expressions,
marital, paternal, filial and even friendship burns Sepia out, and she
feels that they avoid her privacy and independence (company agg., being
alone am. Kent). That’s why Sepia shelters in occupation and in being
alert to the house and family requirements. But finally, burned out, she
desires to fly away from them, but her duty feeling doesn’t let her and
the indifference to loved ones comes
forth.Sepia women reject their
feminity, they are masculine, and like active games, so the trigger of her
pathological picture, appears when she must assume her feminine roll:
first menses, marriage, sexuality, pregnancy, childbed, and kids.Marriage is a crucial period for
Sepia. Making concessions to her mate is very difficult because her
intolerance to contradiction, generates discussions in which she shrieks
with anger and trembling, and then, she leaves the room smashing the door
with violence in order to have the last word. Sepia can be highly
irritable, quarrelsome and impatient, especially with her mate,
overwhelming him with sarcasms and insults.She never gives her married last
name (Sep-Lyc), to keep her individuality.She feels that her children
suffocate her individual growing. So as she cannot get her independence,
she chooses the complaint, the discontent with everything, the offense,
and the sermon. Playing the roll of a martyr, she claims for love and
affection, feeling forsaken, but when they give love to her, she shows
indifference, and laments her destiny. “She is never happy unless she
bothers someone” (Kent).She is neither sentimental nor
dictatorial with her kids, though she is frequently positive and doesn’t
bear silliness, she gets angry for any trifle, she is censorious, she
scolds everybody, and finds others´ faults. She shows a great
irritability for the tiniest thing, she is nasty and she’s in a constant
bad mood.She’s not indulgent and she
wants to make her children to be self-sufficient so she can get her own
freedom. But in some cases she is over demanding with them.Maternity is not easy for Sepia,
because it is an excessive psychological drainage too much tiresome, so
the indifference to the loved ones, is the result more than the cause of
her troubles, that’s why she presents ailments during pregnancy, labor
and childbed. Sepia frequently has sterility and abortion tendency.There is an interesting symptom:
“leucorrhoea after coition”, this is an infertility mechanism,
because the flux washes out the spermatozoids, avoiding fecundation.She can be antisocial with family
and friends due to her aversion to company and to the physical effort that
being sociable demands. In the social intercourse she is excessively open,
and almost rudeness. Sepia isn’t mischievous but impolite, although her
comments can make us feel uncomfortable.In a social party, she keeps away
and silent, till the dance begins (dance am.) then she begins to enjoy the
party.Female sexuality is characterized
by having little interest or sexual energy. It is carried as a charge, the
symptom that better express it is “bearing down”.Pain in the sexual intercourse is
intolerable and can become vaginism. The absence of enjoyment and the
insensibility in vagina are not infrequent. There also may be irritability
post-coitus and symptoms aggravation after coitus.Menses and sexual ailments are
common, including frigidity and menopause disorders.It is remarkable her aversion to
being touched, bothered, and to be approached. She desires to be alone and
to lie with her eyes shut.The affective problematical in
Sepia men don’t differs from the female’s, and there is a parallel in
the sexual symptomatology.Despite in both there can be an
increase in the sexual desire, most of the symptoms are referred to the
diminution. We find erection troubles when he has sexual desire, and shows
priapism after coitus. The ejaculation is too fast, painful and
incomplete.He frequently has night
pollutions interrupted by waking up, it seems that being conscious he
cannot allow sexuality. Coition is so painful that he can have aversion to
it.CONIUM
Conium is a remedy that lives
sexuality in a very special way, because he has troubles for the practice
and also for the absence of sex.The anxiety
of conscience torments and paralyzes the
Conium patient. His fear to punishment, turns him into a serious and
formal individual. That’s why he shelters in religion and governs
himself with strict parameters of ethic and correctness. Everything brings
him guilt, but specially sex.He has the delusion that the
world is full of enemies who pursue him
to injure him, he feels persecuted. This
makes him restless, frightened and easily started, with a great sensorial
and affective hypersensitivity. This situation is unbearable and paralyzes
him, not only in love, with indifference, but also with intellectual and
physical impotence.Conium is sentimental and he gets
sick when he suffers a love disappointment. He is jealous with the
characteristic that jealousy drives him to sexual excitement.He desires company and he feels
better in company, although his slow nature, makes him boring.Everything impresses him in a bad
way, so sadness appears, with the tendency to weep loudly, absorbed in
thoughts and dwells. If his desire for solitude is not respected, he
drives them off with insults. He is violent and destructive.He is morose and dictatorial with
intolerance to contradiction, that’s why the relationship with his
children is very difficult, besides his proud and his contradiction
tendency don’t make things easier.It’s not necessary the presence
of indifference to loved ones for the prescription (affective paralysis),
because that is the final stage of his affective hypersensibility and
weakness. Even to love is tiresome for him, so, it appears the solitude
desire, he feels estranged from his family and isolated. Finally the
weariness is so deep that he shelters in indifference, the misanthropy and
loathing for life. He gets worse in company although he is afraid of being
alone.In Conium, aversion is not an
active reject attitude, he gives up on account of indolence. In this
period we find the aversion to his children, family, men, women, and
company and he desires solitude. His expression is calm and inexpressive
like a wax figure. In his unsociability, sometimes he is like Nat M lonely
mind, because he gets also worse by company although he is afraid of being
alone, but Nat M needs the love that seems to reject and suffers for it’s
absence, something that Conium doesn’t express.In Conium sexuality is extremely
conflictive, he has ailments for the practice of sex, owe to anxiety of
conscience, and for the sex absence, may be because of his biology.The absence of sexual intercourse
brings trembling weakness, hysteria, excitability, and incapability to
sustain mental effort.Sexual thoughts intrude and
torment him with blame. But extended continence, also generates guilt,
hysteria and hypochondria.His fear is so intense that he
prefers to punish himself than being punished, and he does it with
abstinence or a hipersexualtity plenty of impotence and masturbation.It seems that Conium can only
live his sexuality during dreams, the only place where he can escape from
guilt. Then he shows voluptuous and vivid dreams and amorous dreams with
pollutions.Sexual desire in men can be
diminished, increased or they can be easily excited. They have erection
troubles, because they are incomplete or fruitless. Erections can appear
without desire and with frequent pollutions. Ejaculation can be too quick,
incomplete, and painful.In female Conium is evidenced
with delayed and scanty menses, dysmenorrhoea with bearing down, and
breast pain while walking. Conium during pregnancy presents the symptoms
abortion, labor pains false, too painful and distressing, after-pains and
puerperal ailments.Like Sepia she rejects conjugal
coition, but her sexual aversion appears during menopause. She can present
increased sexual desire, especially in virgins and as the previous
remedies, she has sterility and vaginism.Dra. Marcela N. Casais
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