You wrote: "It is true in all of basic and applied science that rare events are no less interesting nor less important than Similarly, the most rare kinds of psychopathology typically reveal a lot about normality. One reason for this is that repressed emotions also exert control over the lives of normal persons. Repression is not just pathological but adaptive, too. The most severely pathological psychological symptoms are sometimes expressions of emotional matters that are deeply repressed in normal life. Frued's statement that nothing human is is alien to any human is also a precept that expresses the understanding of the benefits to learning about the normal from carefully studying with respect even the most abnormal. To refer to the most rare or abnormal kinds of behaviors as "mythical" could be a understood as a way of discarding, for whatever reason, some of the richest data sources that could inform us of fundamntal aspects of the human condition. So I would like to encourage Tina to study necrophilia not as myth but as an important real manisfestation of a form of sexual desire amd sexual expression that has a potential to explain things of importance to everyone--just as a study of the lives of serial killers--who are also rare and who are not unknown for necrophilic tendencies, as was mentioned above--has value in teaching us about the nature of human needs in general and the dire consequuences of their deprivation or neglect.
frequently ocrruring events, and often rare events hold extremely important clues to understanding more frequent ones."
It is also a commonplace truism that one can learn a lot about the normal from a study of the pathological, as any medical pathologist will attest!
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