Chapter 75 Six Ways to Fight Cravings

Are you a cave of all kinds of evil desires?Socrates said: Yes, but I become their master. Although Nietzsche was a philosopher, he had many subtle observations on human psychology.His views on instinct and desire almost include the main views of various psychological schools today. Concerning instinct, he says: Man's instinct is everywhere in anarchy; man is but a few steps from violence; the evil of the soul is a universal crisis.Instinct plays tyrant, we must devise a stronger anti-tyrant When the horoscope told Socrates that he was a cavern of evil desires, the answer of the great allegor provided the key to our understanding.That's true Socrates said: But I become their master.

Regarding desire, Nietzsche said: I found that to fight a strong desire, there are only the following six basic methods: First, he can avoid the opportunity to satisfy the desire. After a long period of unsatisfied desire weakens, it will slowly Slowly disappear.Second, he can force himself to satisfy the desire with strict regularity, and when he gets it regularly, he is no longer troubled by it. Then, perhaps, he can go back to the first method.Thirdly, he may satiate wildly and unrestrictedly with the satisfaction of his desire in order to develop an aversion to it, and this aversion will give him the power to control it.Fourthly, he can use ingenuity to associate the fulfillment of his desires with certain painful thoughts so that after a few times the thought of satisfying his desires is immediately painful.Fifth, he can divert his energy, force himself to do a very difficult or strenuous task, or arrange new stimuli and pleasures for himself; direct his thoughts and physical strength into another channel.Sixth, he can tolerate it, and he will find that this is also a way of consuming and lowering his whole vitality, and when his vitality is exhausted, he will naturally also achieve the purpose of lowering his personal desires.

Nietzsche's words include various treatments of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and cognitive psychology in the future. We can do these things for instinct and desire.