(6.) Georges Bataille,
Erotism: Death and Sensuality, (trans) Mary Dalwood, San Francisco, City Lights Books 1986, p36.
It has further suffered a negative ethical evaluation through its associations with excess and
erotism (ie, desire outside of reproductive functionality as waste).
The Transformacion of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and
Erotism in Modern Societies.
Evidence of anal
erotism in adulthood, however, is hallmark of an inability to understand the Other as anything but an object of exchange--a commodity, in today's world.
(22.) See Georges Bataille,
Erotism: Death and Sensuality, trans.
See also GEORGES BATAILLE,
EROTISM: DEATH AND SENSUALITY 36 (Mary Dalwood trans., 1986) (1967) (examining dialectic of transgression and taboo).
The prurient fascination with gay sexual activity in this story is, in turn, related to a marked 'anal
erotism' (Freud, 1991: 300) in the pun 'rear gunner'.
The tenderness, the
erotism and sexuality are eustres factors.
There were some of naked
erotism. Surely Alberta had not bothered to leaf through them, and Georgina seemed indifferent to whatever I was reading, to the point that I came to feel a certain degree of expansion when they left me alone.
In the absence of God, or, as Bataille would put it in "The Preface to Madame Edwarda" (
Erotism 269), confronted with the void left by his nothingness, our experience of the world ceased to be mediated by a system of knowledge that seeks to overcome its object in the dialectical movement of transcendence.