O homem animal e sua divinização erótica

Abstract

The following text will investigate how Georges Bataille treats erotism and links it to other topics necessary to understand such themes as Good and Evil, and the profane and sacred. To do that, it will depart from the Bataillean description of the worlds and the man's genesis, as written in the Religion Theory, from the initial animal condition and by utilizing tools – such creations coincided with the appearance of work and reasoning. After clarifying all the previously mentioned creations – indispensable stages for the understanding of erotism – which make up the man's dilemma, this paper will look over the inevitable suffocation he experienced in his ordinary life. From that moment on, the Good and Evil dichotomy emerges. As the Good oppresses, the Evil is experienced as the liberation of the bondages created by taboos, the sustenance of human and everyday life. The research on erotism per se will come right after, pinpointing at this point its specificities in the form of Evil and how it unravels in its manifestations.