THE AGONY OF EROS

Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the s ake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Othe r that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within th e inferno of the same. Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources -- Lars von Trier's film Melan cholia, ...[Read more]