erotics

[Jonathan Lighter]

My apologies for a couple of obvious typos.

It is possible, rarely, to use the word _erotics_ without a nearby word like
_xenogenesis_ or _psychotics_ (sing.).

JL

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Certainly a useful word, IMO. But Eros the "god of _transformative_
> love"? Whoa! And, since the 'Fiddies, I've been under the impression
> that he was the god of... um, sexual intercourse, so to speak., the
> name being derived from _eramai_ + NPGen, "I umlove NP," as opposed to
> _phileo_ + NPAcc "I love NP." Memory often fails to rise to the
> occasion. E.g., I now agree with Larry that what the Cardinals pitcher
> said was "Youneverknow" and not "Whatcanyoudo?".
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> I think that I was thrown of by the fact that "You never know" also
> occurs prominently in the SF story, Shall We Have a Little Talk?,
> giving me that "They can't both be the *same*!" feeling.
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> -Wilson
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > A description or analysis of _eros_ , eroticism, or an erotic element;
> > (also) a social, psychological, metaphysical, or other process involving
> > such concepts.
> >
> > 1975-76 Christine Downing in _Jour. of the Amer. Acad. of Religion_ XLIV
> > (Dec.) 629: Towards an Erotics of the Psyche....Because Eros is the god
> of
> > transformative love, there is not only an erotics of the psyche but a
> > psychotics of eros. _Ibid_. 638: [T]he human other...[is] the dimension
> that
> > distinguishes an erotics of the psyche from a poetics or an aesthetics.
> >
> > 1983 John Rouse in _College English_ XLV (Oct., 1983) 535: An Erotics of
> > Teaching.....Surely there is a seductive elemnt in the realtions we have
> > with our students.
> >
> > 1993 Eric White in _Science Fiction Studies_ XX (Nov.) 394: The Erotics
> of
> > Becoming: Xenogenesis and _The Thing_. Ibid. 407: From an "erotics of
> being"
> > transpiring under the rubric of the "human" that abominates the body and
> > materiality in general, XENOGENESIS arrives at an "erotics of becoming"
> that
> > proposes the self-similar mutations of a subject-in-process as a way to
> > reconcile the need for psychological structure with the possibility of
> > embracing the flux of matter in motion.
> >
> > 2004 Purnima Mankekar & Louisa Schein in _Jour. of Asian Studies_ LXIII
> > (May) 357: Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics.
> > _Ibid._ 358: [T]transnational erotics remixes sex and space, refashioning
> > the most intimate of interiorities.
> >
> > JL
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