Excellent insights! Now I see his guitar playing as being an outpour (stream of consciousness) …but I still believe his words are very deliberate. What is this outpour? The three people in his head could be parts of his psyche: the id, the ego and the superego. Red headed women are the epitome of his carnal desires (id) and it conflicts with his morality (superego) and makes him “blue”. This causes his ego to use defensive mechanisms in order to mediate this conflict (“Every time you get defensive, you're just looking for a fight”). Some of examples of defensive mechanisms are:
1-“bite my lip” and “just swallow it” (suppression);
2-“hold on to it and scare the hell out of you” (displacement);
3-“It's safe to say somebody out there's got a problem with almost anything you'll do” (delusional projection);
4-And “three people in my head that have the answer and one of them’s got to be you” (introjection)
There many other examples, however, facing the certainty of his death in his song and then sharing it with the world is probably his most productive defensive mechanism (sublimation). Musical catharsis is the “300mph Torrential Outpour Blues” and it is his remedy.
Excellent insights! Now I see his guitar playing as being an outpour (stream of consciousness) …but I still believe his words are very deliberate. What is this outpour? The three people in his head could be parts of his psyche: the id, the ego and the superego. Red headed women are the epitome of his carnal desires (id) and it conflicts with his morality (superego) and makes him “blue”. This causes his ego to use defensive mechanisms in order to mediate this conflict (“Every time you get defensive, you're just looking for a fight”). Some of examples of defensive mechanisms are: 1-“bite my lip” and “just swallow it” (suppression); 2-“hold on to it and scare the hell out of you” (displacement); 3-“It's safe to say somebody out there's got a problem with almost anything you'll do” (delusional projection); 4-And “three people in my head that have the answer and one of them’s got to be you” (introjection) There many other examples, however, facing the certainty of his death in his song and then sharing it with the world is probably his most productive defensive mechanism (sublimation). Musical catharsis is the “300mph Torrential Outpour Blues” and it is his remedy.