The Agony of Eros
Byung-Chul Han · 2012
Index
- Foreword: The Reinvention of Love (Alain Badiou)
- 1. Melancholia
- 2. Being Able Not to Be Able
- 3. Bare Life
- 4. Porn
- 5. Fantasy
- 6. The Politics of Eros
- 7. The End of Theory
Quote
"Eros and depression are opposites. Eros pulls the subject out of itself, toward the Other."
"In the inferno of the same, erotic experience does not exist."
"A successful relationship with the Other finds expression as a kind of failure."