Jung called Eros the great binder and deliverer and he anticipated a growing awareness of the androgynous aspect of our personalities. |
It revealed Eros to be an oddly shaped, heavily cratered object, with ridges and grooves, and covered by a million boulders, each larger than a house. |
Sigmund Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents, writes that all of life is a battle between the forces of love, or Eros, and the forces of death, Thanatos. |
Lysippos had often used the contrapposto sculptural scheme to portray Alexander and other characters such as Apoxyomenos, Hermes and Eros. |
They show a more disquieting image of death because they evoke the encounter of Eros and Thanatos. |
For a discussion of Eros, Philia and Agape, visit the Philosophy of Love page. |