EROS THANATOS
“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.” ― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Freud theorized that the duality of human nature emerged from two basic instincts: Eros and Thanatos. He saw in Eros the instinct for life, love and sexuality in its broadest sense, and in Thanatos, the instinct of death, aggression. Eros is the drive toward attraction and reproduction; Thanatos toward repulsion and death. One leads to the reproduction of the species, the other toward its own destruction.
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About the later and larger drawing dealing with this subject, EROS THANATOS II
I posted a image in Steemit in connection with showing it in Belgrade this past February: EXHIBITION PIGMALION and Book Presentation in BELGRADE
EROS THANATOS II - graphite on paper - 2017
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