Excesses: Eros and Culture
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Excesses: Eros and Culture (1983) is a book by Alphonso Lingis
- Professor Alfonso Lingis, in his book Excesses: Eros and Culture (SUNY, 1983), describes a high culture that did not repressively rechannel (aka "sublimate") sexual energy. It was in central India in the tenth and eleventh centuries: Khajuraho (op. cit., Chap.3). If Lingis is correct, then we have empirical evidence that Freud's contention that "this desirable state of things... never did exist" ["Aber dieser wünschenswerte Zustand besteht nicht und hat niemals bestanden"], is unnecessarily pessimistic. If some persons actually had this desirable form of life, then neither "human nature" nor the nature of society can be glibly adduced to summarily dismiss as "unrealistic",[1] on Civilization and its Discontents
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