literature
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Achilles stops eating. Job curses the day he was born. Tristan loses himself, and Catherine lets herself die of grief.They are all suffering, yet none of them says: Hey! I’m depressed. Depression, as we understand it today, is a modern diagnostic category, but literature has always told us stories of men and women who stop…
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“Eroticism is the approval of life all the way into death.” Georges Bataille At the heart of every authentic erotic experience lies a desire that goes far beyond physical pleasure: an ancient, almost religious need for total union, for the dissolution of boundaries between self and other, between flesh and the invisible. Georges Bataille described…
Beyond Death 