Iris Savatovsky
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Iris Savatovsky
“Sthira sukham āsanam.”
— Yoga Sutra 2.46
“Jouissance is a part of the field of life, but life taken in its excess, life as it encounters its limit.”
— Lacan, Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, p. 184.
Os mistérios da fisiologia feminina, ligados aos ciclos da Lua, ao mesmo tempo em que seduziam os homens, os repugnavam. O fluxo menstrual, os odores, o líquido amniótico, as expulsões do parto e as secreções de sua parceira os repeliam. O corpo feminino era considerado impuro.
Mary Del Priore • Histórias íntimas - 3 ª edição: Sexualidade e erotismo na história do Brasil (Portuguese Edition)
The boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros- the boundary of flesh ad self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realise I never can.
Anne Carson, Eros the BitterSweet
Polly Barton in Fifty Sounds:
“Language is something we learn with our bodies, and through our bodily experiences: where semantics are umbilically tied to somatics, where our experiences and feelings form a memory palace.”
to represent eros as deferred, defied, obstructed, hungry, organized around a radiant absence—to represent eros as lack.
Anne Carson • Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton Classics)
Unfortunately for the feminine, essentially all major religion traditions were created for the masculine. Taught by the masculine to the masculine using the words of the masculine.
Watching changes in form, thought, and sensation underscores the liberating insight that, although in a very real sense we are embodied beings, we are not this body. Or rather that this body is not a solid and permanent phenomenon.
