Death and Sensuality
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781258130787
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Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
Author: Dr Gwendolyn Leick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1134920741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature is a new contribution to current debates about sex and eroticism. It gives an insight into Mesopotamian attitudes to sexuality by examining the oldest preserved written evidence on the subject - the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources - which were written between the 21st and the 5th centuries B.C. Using these long-neglected and often astonishing data, Gwendolyn Leick is able to anlayse Mesopotamian views of prostitution, love magic and deviant sexual behaviour as well as more general issues of sexuality and gender. This fascinating book sheds light on the sexual culture of one of the earliest literate civilisations.
Love & Eroticism
Author: Mike Featherstone
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1999-09-20
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780761962526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major collection explores the contested nature of love and eroticism, examining the ways in which erotic bodily pleasures have become central to contemporary consumer culture. It investigates the spatial dimension of erotic life through considerations of Bohemian love, the gay city and the ways in which the urban landscape and everyday life have become sexualized - issues which have become central to the emergence of `queer’ as a new form of gender politics and more general questions of sexual citizenship. Drawing on the work of feminists, sociologists and cultural theorists, this book contains a wide-ranging and accessible set of contributions to contemporary debates on sexuality, love and eroticism. Love & Erotici
Eroticism
Author: Georges Bataille
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780141184104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA librarian, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', George Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. Although published at the start of the 'sexual revolution', Eroticism (1857) totally rejects the gospel of 'liberation'. Everywhere, it argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, and everywhere we transgress against them in our desperation to overcome an agonizing sense of separation from other people. In developing this central theme, Bataille offers a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and the violence at the heart of religious ritual. The result is one of the strangest and most compelling books ever written about sex.
Eroticism in Georges Bataille and Henry Miller
Author: Gilles Mayné
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780917786938
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Author: Shay Welch
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-08-13
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1498505422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExistential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to women’s oppression-perpetuating choices. Shay Welch utilizes feminist ethics, broadly construed as feminist philosophy concerned with the ethical commitment to eliminate oppression, to scrutinize how women regard and judge one another and to offer a more representative account of restriction, rationality, and responsibility to begin the healing process between diverse and divergent women. The book aims not only to construct an analysis of self-perpetuated oppression that will broaden feminist understandings of experiences that motivate many women to choose as they do, it serves as a means of understanding the marginalized.
The Double Flame
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780156003650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays examines the themes of love and sex in literature, from Plato to modern fiction.
Sacred Eroticism
Author: Massimo Introvigne
Publisher: Mimesis
Published: 2024-03-06T00:00:00+01:00
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 8869774759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred eroticism has been an important if neglected feature of Western esotericism from the early modern era down to the present day. Founded in Romania, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute (MISA) turned sacred esotericism into the central feature of a mass movement, gathering some 30,000 students worldwide. Based on extensive fieldwork and interviews, the book explores the history of MISA from its origins to the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting in detail its ideas about Tantra and eroticism. It also discusses MISA’s approach to visual arts and cinema, including some of its members’ early incursions into the slippery world of adult movies. The study concludes with a look at hostile reactions to MISA, which have led to the issuing of arrest warrants against its founder amid a series of criminal accusations, which the movement rejects as fabricated by opponents.
Sacred Eroticism
Author: Juan Carlos Ubilluz
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0838756255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical framework with an (Inter)textualist approach. Juan Carlos Ubilluz reveals how Julio Cortazar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Juan Garcia Ponce adopted Sataille and Klossowski's aesthetic and philosophical models as a point of departure to rearticulate the modern subject's buried dimension of the sacred through various Innovations on the erotic novel's form. Ubilluz examines the dialectical irruption of these literary experiments into their particular aesthetic, theoretical, and political contexts; showing, for instance, that Cortazar's
Eroticism
Author: Salman Akhtar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-06
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1000651576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions from distinguished scholars and clinicians who view human erotic desire from modern developmental, relational, societal, and cross-cultural perspectives, Eroticism: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms offers a multifaceted and up-to-date glimpse into what we find sexually attractive and why. While psychoanalysis has unshackled itself from the narrow confines of instinct theory to include ego psychology, object relations theory, self psychology, and the contemporary relational paradigm, such heuristic and clinical advance is sorely needed to further our grasp of human eroticism and love. Accommodation also needs to be made for the cultural changes that have occurred over the last five or six decades. These include the feminist corrective to the phallocentrism of ‘classical’ psychoanalysis, the new insights into human subjectivity and personality development provided by the gay and lesbian movement, the contemporary de-centering of the essentialist and binary gender formulations, and the post-colonial voices of the non-Western people. By providing theoretically anchored clinical guidelines, Eroticism provides not only an update on the early analytic understanding of human eroticism but advances clinical praxis as well.
