Dionysian Psychology

The motives of a man and a woman who are dating might not coincide--for example one is seeking sexual-pleasure, the other security, but if the situation satisfies each, then the relationship might continue.  Now, a 20th-century Psychologist might recognize some latent motives--she reminds him of his mother, she has fears of abandonment because of a cold father, etc.  But a Dionysian Psychologist, who, like Nietzsche in The Gay Science #1, conceives all individual behavior to be an expression of a species drive, might recognize the relationship to be an attempt of the species to propagate.  Furthermore, this latter analysis is not peculiar to sexual relations alone--according to the principle, all human relations are grounded in a species drive.  In other words, according to the Dionysian Psychologist, not only are the 'Individual' and its apparent motives fabrications, so, too, are the concepts of the relations with others into which it appears to enter.  For, implicit in the Dionysian principle is a rejection of the Atomist concept of inter-personal relations as external to its relata, just as social dating, apparently circumstantial, can be the product of a species drive that is drawing the couple together, via deception.