Concept
Eros (concept)
Overview
one of the four ancient Greek terms for types of "love"
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Lupe appears to be derived from the relaxation (luein) which the body feels when in sorrow; ania (trouble) is the hindrance of motion (alpha and ienai); algedon (distress), if I am not mistaken, is a foreign word, which is derived from aleinos (grievous); odune (grief) is called from the putting on (endusis) sorrow; in achthedon (vexation) “the word too labours,” as any one may see; chara (joy) is the very…
Plato, Cratylus
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The name libido can again be used to denote the manifestations of the power of Eros in contradistinction to the energy of the death instinct.[21] We must confess that it is more difficult for us to detect the latter, and to a great extent we can merely conjecture its existence as a background to Eros, also that it eludes us wherever it is not betrayed by a fusion with Eros. In sadism, where it bends the erotic aim…
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents
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And now I think that you will perceive the drift of my discourse; but as every spoken word is in a manner plainer than the unspoken, I had better say further that the irrational desire which overcomes the tendency of opinion towards right, and is led away to the enjoyment of beauty, and especially of personal beauty, by the desires which are her own kindred--that supreme desire, I say, which by leading conquers and…
Plato, Phaedrus
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Enter Antony and Eros. ANTONY. Eros, thou yet behold’st me? EROS. Ay, noble lord. ANTONY.
William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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Our sexlove is essentially different from the simple sexual craving, the Eros, of the ancients. In the first place it presupposes mutual love. In this respect woman is the equal of man, while in the antique Eros her permission is by no means always asked.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
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Philosophers who discussed Eros (concept)
Related ideas
- Aristophanes
- Aphrodite
- Classical Athens
- Philosophy
- Agape
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Sociology
- Middle Ages
- Augustine of Hippo
- Plato
- Psychoanalysis
- Symposium (Plato)
- Renaissance
- Jews
- Sigmund Freud
- Psychological projection
- Logos
- Encyclical
- Sparta
- Pericles
- Eros and Civilization
- Ovid
- Gender
- Baroque
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.