On your latest video, I would begin from first principles; what is humility and what is the role of sexuality in civilisation?
We see in myth, Adam and Eve become aware of their nakedness only after they gain knowledge, and so cover themselves in fig leaves; afterwards, they are covered in animal skins. Later, we see Ham cursed for coming into knowledge of the "nakedness" of his father, Noah. The knowledge of nakedness is not simply aesthetic, but active, for it said that Adam and Eve "knew each other" when they copulate, and so "knowledge" is associated with Eros, such that the "forbidden fruit" is the primary prohibition, and the initiation into apparent nakedness. We see in the writings of Freud, eroticism is not essential to the organism (such that libido is inorganic, as it is expressed in the Death Drive), and so it is understood symbolically (for indeed, all eroticism requires the vehicle of fantasy). He sees that civilisation is nothing besides the development of a primary repression (often ritualised as the prohibition of incest by totems). We see for example, the protogenoi, titans and gods as incestuous; brothers marrying sisters, and so on - but by the time we get to Oedipus, incest is reviled as contrary to nature in mythical narrative. Adam and Eve are certainly brother and sister (or even father and daughter, if we view Eve as generated from Adam's rib). Abel, Cain and Seth are thus products of incest, but we see that Cain (as the father of civilisation; e.g. the father of agriculture, cities and craft) attains a wife from outside of his immediate family (i.e. his mother), and so already in Cain is the development of civilisation by the traversity into otherness, and the prohibition of incest. Incest as the primary sexual union thus, must be broken to develop society.
The prohibition of incest by the regulation of mating also leads to further dynamics, as Freud views it - that where sex is managed from above, it also cultivates a monopoly; thus, we have polygamy by a "primal father" (e.g. Cronos) who is cast down by Zeus, and from whence, the union of marriage is constituted, to properly manage the competition of mates by monogamy. Thus, primary regulations creates monopoly, and this is further advanced by the institution of marriage. Marriage is fraught with internal contradictions however, since the wife competes with daughters, and the husband competes with sons. We see for example, that when Lot's wife is killed, his da
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