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The desire regarded as wild instinct is to think that it can not be socialized in a way only, but also a profound confrontation with society 9t9 - even, perhaps profound confrontation with civilization. Wild instinct in this sense, and in some of the great myths of Western culture in opposition was strong expression, including rationality and passion Greece 9t9 Apollo and Dionysus, the Renaissance, the cultural and natural , there are a relatively recent 9t9 interpretation of human history Floyd - endless confrontation between civilization and instinct. Each set of meaningful myth of confrontation, contain 9t9 conflicting dual truth, the nature of both social and political, but also psychological. On the one hand, the desire of certain requirements of civilization (especially sexual) conduct 9t9 mold, control, repression; on the other hand, the more people want to constrain, control libido, sexual desire, the more likely a part of the escape or resist control, but most will in some form of direct or distorted rebound, destruction and even subvert attempts to control it any thing, any person.
At the same time, the desire of each group involved in the opposition is clearly a viable again: They are Dionysus, passion, nature, instinct or impulse. But this untamed vitality, without socialization, non-human 9t9 nature. Human attempts 9t9 to tame it, but often counterproductive, core vitality that immoral but became potentially more devastating to humans. This is, in Bataille's work has been the most romantic way: "Erotica is a crazy world, ethereal surfaces such as heaven, but it is the deepest hell." ("Tears of Eros" p 69.) Moreover, This is a desert with life itself irrelevant vitality: it is death, disintegration and destruction of the power of neck. Eros and Thanatos Tana God and Satan did not irreconcilable; they mount tightly together, but in such disparate embrace. This is the core concept of pre-Christian and non-Christian in the wild. Let us look at Euripides is how dramatic manifestation of this idea.
Greek tragedy, even if it is by including modern slang translation to read, can not help but confusing, 9t9 giving a strange 9t9 feeling. We admit that it is a harbinger of modern tragedy, but at the same time, Greek tragedy and it looks so different. One of the reason is that binds us together with the Greek tragedy thing - we are accustomed to casually call "tradition" 9t9 - not just pick out the best ones impartially from history, but rather an ongoing and to explain the process of transformation in the past, so as to serve the moment. 9t9 If one is to examine the function of the traditional critics of the past, for which the strange 9t9 and disturbing thing to be rational or banned, radical critics 9t9 of modern task is to challenge the traditional reading the literature of the past when, instead of maintaining tradition; but really 9t9 very few who do so. An example can illustrate the problem, is to borrow the Greek gods Dionysus. Throughout the 20th century, all kinds of activists advocating for freer sexual life and begging the spirit to Dionysus. In this process, "he" was domesticated, was rationalized beyond recognition, when people look back in Euripides' Dionysus partner "(BC 407) in the shape of Dionysus, full hope to use his image to add a little support for the modern classical liberalism career, so that they can see in front of stunned. The play tells of Thebes King Pentheus, a shallow 9t9 moronic guy, how trying 9t9 to suppress the worship of Bacchus. Dionysus's revenge, is to let the mother of Pentheus in Dionysian ecstasy in celebration torn to pieces by his own hands: "His mother priests, / first hands-sacrifice, rushed over to him." Peng through Adams supplicate to his mother: "'Mother Yeah,' he cried and cried, / he touched her chin, 'I was your son Pentheus.'" However,
"Bacchus partner" is the Euripides tragedy last one. His early tragedy "Medea" (BC 431) describe a similar 9t9 conflict. Is the story of Jason abandoned "barbarians" Medea wife and two children, ready to marry the daughter of Creon king of Corinth Grau moment. To excuse for their actions, reminding Jason Medea, he took her to the civilized nations of "wilderness", only in this "violence give way to the law of society", she was the first insight into what justice. Medea "Shun the unruly 9t9 beast", belong 9t9 to the civilized world, but it still represents a barbaric world (p 61, 1406.) - The civilized world to define themselves in contrast. Creon vent their anger Zhaohuo worried about her, so she was expelled from the country. She left, in the implementation of well-planned revenge after the terrible (p 50, 1074-6.):
And "Bacchus partner", as the author intends to violence and violations of human warmth violence in contrast to highlight terrorist violence. In the "Bacchus partner", the mother of Pentheus in front of him to shreds and stroked her chin; in "Medea", the father hugging his daughter mutilated corpses, in pain itself into rotten bones meat. We have also witnessed how Medea deliberately become ruthless, good personally kill own flesh and blood. In both the drama, the most powerful representatives of civilization and alien, alien thing to confront, which is reflected in the exclusion 9t9 of civilization energy, the exclusion of their civilization became civilized. Modern audience, equally important is Pentheus is to destroy these forces from inside the way - he first charmed a group of women, who then was only shreds. Agreement between the two lies in the drama, in which violence is not arbitrarily applied from outside 9t9 the community; part of the source of this violence, it is the social order it destroyed. At the same time, the two drama also hinted that violence must not be attributed to social causes. Some people imagine, if we can show violence entirely by social causes, it is possible to eliminate violence - this is a tragedy for the rejection of the idea. This is not to say that we are against the basic reality is grim, immutable nature. In Greek tragedy, we have seen roughly a situation, then this situation will become more and more clear that, come back to destroy civilization wild energy and intensity of its toxicity, some of it from civilized repression.
Christian theology rejected the idea that death is the relentless nature of the life of primitive consciousness wedge instead blamed the death of a profound myth: hostility between God and Satan (the wild is interpreted as evil) to death with the WTO's fundamental responsibility is to humans. The most unusual feature of Christianity, is not it the invention of God and eternal life to alleviate the pain of death, but let it through mundane men responsible for the death and exacerbated the pain. Must not forget that the original sin concept of highly symbolic tangled mix Nuyan and conceited, that's what the essence of Christianity. As Erin. Pagels said, the strength of the concept of original sin, and sometimes part is that we would rather feel guilty and do not want to feel helpless ("Adam, Eve and the serpent" p. 146). This is an excellent example of how the human mind reveals arrogant attempt 9t9 to identify things that threaten it, or even want to internalize these things.
Of course, the original consciousness still affects Christian theology; just recall that since ancient times through the Renaissance until the recent, widespread belief that male ejaculation will shorten life. . Renaissance poet John Donne wrote: "The blind generosity, / we kill ourselves, just as offspring" ("World's Anatomy", 9t9 l 110.), He said, is this going on. Donne more or less agree with theological insight: do not recognize is the relentless nature of the death wedging life, the wild interpreted as evil, Eve blamed the deaths brought the desire. The following sentence from the same poem: "That is our first marriage funeral: / had a woman as long as a hit is enough to kill us all, / is now alone, one by one to exterminate." This view is undoubtedly the misogyny have a great relationship - for the sake of convenience, I tentatively called "patriarchal concept", although not necessarily accurate - but if you believe that such a label on the bin down, it was just advocating progressive gender politics of illusion Bale . Misogyny although closely related to some of the most fundamental 9t9 negation of civilization, but the association is not sufficient to explain the way these things. In this context 9t9 misogyny considerations should take a more serious 9t9 attitude, for some simplistic explanations questioned.
In the Garden of Eden myth, Eve deviant 9t9 desires to death into the world. Christians imprisoned in the flesh between desire and death, especially since in the absence of the occasion to experience sexual desire for our harm, torture and the destruction of the most tragic. Clamped by means of extreme sexuality is not freedom. Craving beginning 9t9 of death. In this light, recent militant let sex become a source of human liberation, 9t9 really brave enough. They take sex to make a fuss, just get dead Christian theologians fuss. This is how arrogant. 9t9 How old gods laugh! However, if the old gods cruel laughter reveal a little bit jealous, that we have not got it wrong: If the gods because human arrogance and punish us, that this is how they fall in love with our human reason. I just said, is the death of desire began. Christian God and his predecessors, let him nothing to desire. He is perfect, no not a lack of anything. He will never thirst because thirst is not a perfect performance, 9t9 is a limitation, a dead human after all inseparable. As a perfect symbol of the Christian God does not desire, but he would not laugh. At least, since Satan leave heaven, he did not laugh.
The Herald of Christian theology - the Church Fathers - believe we need to create a true civilization in a fallen world, we must vigorously repressed human instinct. But they also know how much Floyd later used the term to express the psychological 9t9 analysis of the phenomenon, namely the more developed civilization, the more easily it is bound to be excluded and repressed factors turned on. By Floyd, but also through the rough and tortuous history of ideas in common, ironically misinterpretation 9t9 of this understanding for the aid to promote radical liberation facilitated, which Norman Brown, William Reich Herbert. Mary Law Qusay, 9t9 who works in both performance (by the way, for the culmination of the gender queer theory radicalism, these people are really influential but often overlooked ancestors).
If these authors, the essential idea is bound to be depressed by a rebound, then Floyd on repressed person will never be eliminated opinion 9t9 is also important: the individual soul or the social order, it has never will be completely off. Instead, it will reside in the two, always threatening its stability. Everyone has experienced this struggle, but the intensity varies only: instinct, this subconscious and I always want to try to destroy the hard-won self unstable equilibrium. But gender activists argue that not only does the power to destroy individuals through repression, may have actually been released and turned against the oppressive social purposes. This is a major ideological shift: Today, sex is no longer a reason for people to extremes not free, and became radical liberal vision of achieving power. Sex is no longer suffering, guilt and death origin, but rather 9t9 to bring liberation and happiness of the savior. Not surprisingly, this implies a desire to reverse 9t9 the tame, in fact, is a new type of depression. Sex radicalism want to subvert the desire something without touching something else; it must destroy the old order, but had to serve the new order. They seem to want, the liberation of their own desires can become civilized. But expect to use the desire to distinguish good and bad social order is unwise; trumpeted a rebound 9t9 theory of repressed by radicalism itself, will continue to face their own repressed's rebound.
At any time, as long as the desire for a radical idea (or it was the opposite of reformism) due to their oppression and suffering a loss, wild instincts again half hidden on these two views constitute 9t9 puzzling 9t9 challenge. In art, wild instinct is never invisible. Artists have always been fascinated, especially the risk of latent erotic, and possibly in the erotic encounter death. There are a recent collection of short stories, are called "high-risk 2: about sex, death, subversive work", by Del Shore (Scholder) and 斯尔维柏格 (Silverberg) editor. The book claims that its authors in the "forefront of literature." The reality 9t9 is, most people may have to work harder to keep up with the pace of the times it barely. About 85 years ago, in "Death in Venice" in Thomas Mann has been on sex, death, subversion write much deeper than this text. 35 years later, in "Dr. Faust", he expressed the same strokes epic themes (the novel is very important, but now-loved). Mann writes, wild and erotic encounter to illness and death, became the core of the second half of the 20th century European history. 20 years ago, it seems difficult to imagine 9t9 anyone proposition can be used on the same half of the 21st century. Now this has been no problem. But the point to remember is that, in Mann's pen, as in the literature of the Renaissance, and in fact, as early as in Greek tragedy, desire and sexual indivisible, but not limited to sex.
Wild instinct being some queer (queer) theorists 9t9 hesitant resurrection, which most people do not care about their history. A few years ago, there are bars queer movement slogan says, "is the human desire to commit murder." But the most controversial recent wild instinct intellectuals advocates, there is no doubt Camilla. Paglia, and she is fully aware of its cultural history. Although the huge influence of her "gender Mask" (early 1990 version), a book almost no mention Bataille, but her view is clearly already passed by Bataille herald. Paglia revival of the human history as the eternal battle between Apollo and Dionysus type type of view. For her, the truth of Dionysus impossible to find on the surface of the earth, and to the depths of the earth to find; if there's mucus feel sick, it is because we just come from there; change too civilized, 9t9 is full alienation from our true origins. 9t9 Paglia is the essence of nature called "Hades", that "the power center of the earth rotating squeeze blind, long-term, slowly sucking, 9t9 darkness and mud." All cultures, including aesthetics and science, are based on this fact inhibit or evade: human life begins at an original melting pot, where the vitality and strength but also ablation of death:
Human culture is against this natural defenses, large and necessary. But we have a natural libido still divided nature. Therefore, sex is not free, non-human, it is difficult to suppress, ferocious, with "wild impermanence" is characterized by (p. 13). In sex, we indulge in a kind of "regression toward the beginning ablation"; implied threat of extinction. 9t9 Paglia said that because of this, many men turned backwards or after sexual intercourse, or to get away: "They felt the wild atmosphere of death" (p 4-5.). She believes in full compliance with human nature, there is no guilt of sexual excitement is impossible.
There are people inside and outside the academic Paglia denounced Fassi

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