tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post3311993619843455880..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: SEX AND DEATHbillierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-88764023176999525472010-10-09T03:16:01.683-07:002010-10-09T03:16:01.683-07:00Thanks Fulani. That's interesting. The theory ...Thanks Fulani. That's interesting. The theory behind this sort of stuff can be rather dull -- but it's important, because it does give us the tools to talk about such things. I shall certainly look out some of the texts you mention.<br /><br />Jan tells me that the Wiertz painting is now at Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.(My keyboard can't do the accents!) Also, that Wiertz used tradional oil painting techniques for La Belle Rosine. Not the technique I mentioned in the post.<br /><br />Jan also tells me that that on the skull of the skeleton, there is a small etiquette with the words “La belle Rosine”. Rosine is in fact staring at the skeleton she herself is going to become in a near or not so near future.billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-13695046489752939512010-10-08T18:58:49.376-07:002010-10-08T18:58:49.376-07:00Interesting stuff.
Just to add some random bits t...Interesting stuff.<br /><br />Just to add some random bits to the discussion, the original opposition wasn't between Eros and Thanatos: Wikipedia observes: 'The Greek poet Hesiod established in his Theogony that Thánatos is a son of Nyx (Night) and Erebos (Darkness) and twin of Hypnos (Sleep).'<br /><br />The opposition of Eros and Thanatos was a Freudian thing, though apparently the use of Thanatos in this context wasn't coined by Freud himself.<br /><br />One of the more interesting commentaries in this area was by the radical philosopher Norman O Brown, in his 'Life Against Death' (1959) which was a kind of psychoanalytic reading of historical philosophy. It's been much discussed since but was highly original in its time. Some of Herbert Marcuse's work, which I still go back to for inspiration from time to time, also discusses this in relation to economic and social issues. <br /><br />The comment at the end about the pornography of violence is well observed - there is, actually, a similar observation in one of Lenny Bruce's comic routines from the 1950s, and at the time if I remember rightly it was part of what got him arrested on obscenity charges (it was very controversial for those times!).Fulanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14959628434559905605noreply@blogger.com