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Modern French conceptions of eroticism can be traced to [[The Enlightenment]], when "in the eighteenth century, dictionaries defined the erotic as that which concerned [[love]]...eroticism was the intrusion into the [[public]] sphere of something that was at base [[private]]". This theme of intrusion or transgression was taken up in the twentieth century by the French philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille Georges Bataille], who argued that eroticism performs a [[function]] of [[dissolving]] [[boundaries]] between human [[subjectivity]] and [[humanity]], a transgression that dissolves the [[rational]] world but is always temporary, as well as that, "[[Desire]] in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the [[taboo]]. It [[presupposes]] man in [[conflict]] with himself". For Bataille, as well as many French theorists, "Eroticism, unlike simple [[sexual]] [[activity]], is a [[psychological]] [[quest]]...eroticism is assenting to [[life]] even in [[death]]".[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic]
Modern French conceptions of eroticism can be traced to [[The Enlightenment]], when "in the eighteenth century, dictionaries defined the erotic as that which concerned [[love]]...eroticism was the intrusion into the [[public]] sphere of something that was at base [[private]]". This theme of intrusion or transgression was taken up in the twentieth century by the French philosopher [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille Georges Bataille], who argued that eroticism performs a [[function]] of [[dissolving]] [[boundaries]] between human [[subjectivity]] and [[humanity]], a transgression that dissolves the [[rational]] world but is always temporary, as well as that, "[[Desire]] in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the [[taboo]]. It [[presupposes]] man in [[conflict]] with himself". For Bataille, as well as many French theorists, "Eroticism, unlike simple [[sexual]] [[activity]], is a [[psychological]] [[quest]]...eroticism is assenting to [[life]] even in [[death]]".[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic]
==See also==
*'''''[[Pornography]]'''''
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Psychology]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
