The world inside my head: June 2011

Monday 6 June 2011

Thought

Do you know where sexual desire comes from? The immediate answer being our instinct... Everyone knows that, but there must be something behind that instinct. How do we explain the immediate attraction. According to Plato, at the very beginning of creation women and men were not as they are now.

There was one being, not two. Short, with a body and a neck but the head had two faces, looking in different directions. As though two creatures had been glued back to back with two sets of sex organs and four arms and legs. Humans moved forward and backward and would run in a cartwheel manner by spinning themselves around like crazy on all eight limbs.

The Greek Gods however, became anxious because this being was extremely strong. The human could work hard with its two faces. It was energetic and vigilant and could not be tricked or taken by surprise and could walk miles without tiring. What was most threatening is that the creature needed nothing except itself to reproduce.

Zeus became threatened, and came up with a plan to put these creatures back in their place. He struck the creature in two, as if cutting a hard boiled egg with a piece of wire. This doubled the population of humans and filled them with a sense of emptiness. They became weak and disorientated.

They now had to search for their lost half and embrace it, regain their former strength and the ability to feel whole and avoid loneliness and solitude .

The Kiss by Constantin Brancusi

That embrace in which the two bodies re-fuse to withstand evil as a unit and become one again is what we call making love. Finding the lost soul. Incompleteness is a terrible distress; while “love” is the name for our desire for wholeness, for our emotional drive towards restoration of our original constitution.

MarcChagall The Birthday Kiss 1915

klimt...we all know this one

' I am two women: one who wants to have all the joy, danger, passion and adventure life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to things that can be planned and achieved. I am a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with eachother.'