The body is precisely the locus for the commerce of desire, the passage of time, the exchange
between Eros and Thanatos.
Shit may be the closest we come to death in life, or for that matter, the meeting ground
between Eros and Thanatos.
Although the sculpture depicts death and decay, it carries the title Sex, a reference to the interrelationship
between Eros and Thanatos (Love and Death).
More from Rogers describing the relationship
between eros and agape:
It would seem that, from the beginning, Kass was a humanistic dissenter from a scientific consensus about the true relationship
between eros and logos.
Although he does not mention by name Anders Nygren, the Swedish theologian, he clearly disputes Nygren's driving of a sharp wedge
between eros and agape: «I remember, for instance, my delight in discovering this recognition that eros opens upon agape in Homer.
The results revealed that there was a significant positive relationship between IRO, PWB, and SE with LA and a significant negative relationship
between ERO and LA.
Not exact matches
Wyschogrod notes that it is common to distinguish
between two kinds of love, agape and
eros.
Through the two hemispheres of the human brain, each making distinctive contributions to human activity, a fresh way is provided for comprehending the traditional tension
between faith and reason, ecstasy and ethics,
eros and agape.
The distinction corresponds to some degree to that
between soul and body Agape is disinterested and impartial, without regard to persons, while
eros is interested love, concerned with this person rather than that and desirous of the body of the other.
The distinctions
between agape, philos, and
eros, for example, are fairly well - known among scholarly types.
But this admission in itself would certainly tend to suggest that there is a more organic bond
between agape, nomos, and
eros than he strictly allows.
Here it is important once more to see the relations
between agape,
eros, and philia.
The «Christ of Culture» approach sees no essential conflict
between Christ and
Eros.
The plot that tracks the connection
between Christ and
Eros in congregational story will be one that reflects not Niebuhr's «Christ against culture» category but his four other types of interaction
between the two powers in human life.
In distinction from Nygren and Bonhoeffer, Troeltsch's interpreter H. Richard Niebuhr defines the relationship
between Christ and
Eros as more subtly interwoven.
They open the door to a deeper conversation about values, human nature and the fragility of
eros, and force us to grapple with some of the most unsettling questions: How do we negotiate the elusive balance
between our emotional and our erotic needs?
For those that don't know,
Eros is a baby we lost
between Adiah and Walden.
As the teams investigate how
EroS works, they're continuing to explore the interactions
between bacteria and choanoflagellates.
The opening night was raucous, filled with art and performances that toed the line
between elegy and
eros.
Based on her examination of extremely aggressive fantasies of hate, envy, and greed in very young and very ill children, Klein put forth the interpretation that the human psyche constantly oscillates
between positions in which
Eros or Thanatos is in the fore.