Dialogic: Eros and Thanatos

Love is the desire to be seen, to restrict the self from concealment whereas love is the unfolding of a flower, which is to an extent, seasonal and governed by external factors upon where it has grown, propagated, only as it is unrestricted. The desire for union is the natural tendency of man, however narcissistic, we impose our own image upon any form of Other, whether persons, objects, or signs and ideas, where we can only see ourselves as an Other, which is a delight towards our hunger towards understanding the self.

It is this making-sense of our separate selves that spurs love into action: a hermeneutics of relations between every I and every Other: where every I is one and every Other is one and this singularity of both aspects are merged by love, by this instinctual preservation of our selves as humans, which goes on towards the instinct to survive. However, in love is the death of the self and the Other for upon loving, both admit submission to function as one as both become transparent. In a sense, love is a death drive, the desire of the self to be torn apart by the dissolution of the individual aspect of the I that upon its breaking, is being salvaged by the Other.

/enjambments

2022

digital art

4000 x 5000, 150 dpi