Eros and Thanatos
The old Greek gods are still a very strange couple poles apart from each other, even if psychoanalysis has gathered for a time in the nineteenth century. Eroticism, Eros, and its alleged opposite, the death or Thanatos are always at the center of our concerns. Life instincts cons death instincts, Sigmund Freud would say . Energy of life or sexual libido, a dynamic process of the body to reduce the tension by carnal satisfaction, research cons of death to return to a previous state without suffering, before life.
Is it to find a solution to these objections that the great love are forged the most tragic of fates? Because sexual satisfaction that we prefer to call love, only for a time. The time desperately short of passion. Meteoric. Ephemeral and ransacked. I just killed my two heroines. Queen Mary Stuart's pretty tense "neck" as it was then, the ax of the executioner. Queen of the Aures, called erroneously The Kahina, the witch, has pierced the breast does not bow to Arab invaders. It disposes of a book as is a lover. It leaves your body, your life. We do not always know what happens to the lover. It is hoped that the book back to life, also for others. My "Flaming Mary Stuart" will be published in May by Perrin and my "Queen of the Aures" probably in the coming year by Albin Michel. Both were great love promised to earlier death. Only lover, maybe ...
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| The Kama Sutra or art of love was shown delicious Mughal miniatures |
During my recent three-month tour of India, I admired many shrines dedicated to the art love, the Kama Sutra. I have haunted many temples dedicated to Kali, the seductress, the mistress of time and life. Kali dancing on a bed of corpses, a necklace of skulls around his neck. Kali promising the arrival of children to infertile couples and intoxicated by the beauty of blood red hibiscus. Always the same paradoxes ...
hope that a book is emerging from these meetings.
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| Kali old woman dancing ... |
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| ... A necklace of skulls around his neck |
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