Status Updates From Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

ἐρέω τε δηὖτε κοὐκ ἐρέω
καὶ μαίνομαι κοὐ μαίνομαι.

I’m in love! I’m not in love!
I’m crazy! I’m not crazy!”

- Sappho

“The shape of love and hate is perceptible, then, in a variety of sensational crises. Each crisis calls for decision and action, but decision is impossible and action a paradox when eros stirs the senses. Everyday life can become difficult; the poets speak of the consequences for behavior and judgment.”

“It was Sappho who first called eros “bittersweet.” No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?

Eros seemed to Sappho at once an experience of pleasure and pain. Here is contradiction and perhaps paradox.”

carson no sólo te explica la triangulación del deseo sino que además te incluye dentro de una triangulación con el propio concepto. es increíble