The Importance of Energy and Flow in Erotic Life

Bataille was also a sociologist in his own right, that I think he even called himself a sociologist. His work on the accursed share and the sort of sacrificial economy is not separable from his work on eroticism. He's looking for a theory which applies to all of these levels,. So, I think it's way more ambitious than what he is given credit for usually. It seems a good place to actually draw in, and the figure who's perhaps been a bit overlooked in that room, Nietzsche.

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