Intro Flashcards
What is Dark Eros? (8 cards)
What does desire touch on?
Desire touches on the basis of being
Desire erupts as…
Desire erupts as the raw impulse to connect, stroke, caress, grab ,squeeze and possess
At times, erotic attraction comes from the perception of beauty and the aesthetic response of the genitals and the heart. Other times….
Erotic attraction comes from darker perversions, exquisite torture, misfortune or sick fantasies that excite and fascinate
What lies behind these darker fantasies?
Feelings of disgust, betrayal, guilt and humiliation.
The dogmas of othering and the moralities created to defend us against our more deviant desires
What is a dogma?
Principle laid down by an authority as unquestionably true
Why not straighten out these deviant fantasies?
To straighten out or deviant fantasies is to miss them entirely. The errors and gruesome excesses of love have soul and urgently want body
What does it mean to give body to the ____ of the psyche?
Polymorphous perversity
