[lit-ideas] Re: What, then, is wanting to know?
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:32:45 -0500
>>As far as knowledge being erotic, we need to define erotic. Carnal
knowledge is miniscule, virtually irrelevant "knowledge" paraded as
wisdom (your average "maturation story" is virtually always about sexual
maturity). Miniscule, virtually irrelevant knowledge turned into
obsession and tragedy.
Andy, you highlight the negative. Erotic doesn't mean orgasmic. I
commend to you the Greek myth "Eros and Psyche" and "Death in Venice" by
Thomas Mann. Also consider Socrates and his relation to the young men
about him or the relation between Shakespeare and the beloved of his
Sonnets. Or the "ladder" of the neoplatonists, where crude erotic love
sophisticates itself to knowledge of forms.
Or just as well, the great movie, Groundhog Day, where an erotic
obsession, pursued in a day that constantly repeats, leads the character
from a coarse and selfish view to a truer understanding of himself, his
community, and his beloved.
If Satan is the "spirit that denies," eros is the spirit that affirms.
Like the Greek myth or the Mann story, one doesn't want to look that
force in the face; otherwise one gets the dark obsessions you describe
above.
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