on love

The Other.

Enchantment.

Awe.

Invasion of the Exterior.

Transcendance.

Transformation.

“Today, love is being positivized into sexuality, and, by the same token, subjected to a commandment to perform. Sex means achievement and performance. And sexiness represents capital to be increased. The body—with its display value—has become a commodity. At the same time, the Other is being sexualized into an object for procuring arousal. When

“Eros, in contrast, makes possible experience of the Other’s otherness, which leads the One out of a narcissistic inferno… This feeling is not the achievement of the One, but the gift of the Other.”

Socrates

• Love as ‘Pro-Creation’ (not just children, but of ideas etc.)

• Love as being the inspiring force that propels us towards the cultivation of virtue

“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous,

The Aristophanic Ideal of Love (very modern!) → Completion (““Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”)

““Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.”

“According to Greek mythology, humans were