Summary
Lou Andreas-Salome: Erotica
Lou Salome's "Erotica" is a philosophical and psychological study of the importance of erotica in our lives and the erotic drive as a unifying force that forms the basis of humanity. In this important essay, Lou Andreas Salome makes insightful observations about sex, gender, art, and religion that make it as contemporary and relevant today as it was when it was written over a hundred years ago. "According to its deepest inner meaning, the act of love is - and every love is a kind of creative act - a creative excitement caused by a beloved being, but not from love, but because of love itself. That is why, according to my being, I am erotic. Undoubtedly it must be understood - just like the spiritually creative - as an occasional state, which comes and goes, and whose intensity or fullness of happiness can say nothing about its probable duration in an individual case."
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