[blackcoffeestudies]

Mutual fascination is always a risky business. Lacan suggests that it is the consequence of an imaginary identification in which the self strives to incorporate the other in an act as aggressive as it is loving. It is never clear who, snake or snake charmer, is mesmerized by whom.

Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Leopold Sacher-Masoch - Venus & Adonis - Scripts - 1969

[janacademia]

a melt into each other type of love

[laclefdescoeurs]

Exhausted Bacchantes, Robert van Vorst Sewell

[apttalbalik]

[theactioneer]

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan the Barbarian (1982)

[hagbard-signe]

[you-are-another-me]

[bebemoon]

"The sculpture in the image is “Das Schicksal” (Fate), created in 1905 by Hugo Lederer. The sculpture portrays fate as a ruthless woman dragging two vulnerable bodies by their hair.

The work is currently located in Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Germany."

from @dustseasons on instagram .

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[8nin]

seeing someone’s handwriting for the 1st time is lowkey so personal and beautiful idk how to explain it

[dydjune]

really in my own world stayin out the way completely

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Anna Mond: Nocturnal Animals.

[preschooldr0pout]

[portalibis]

Sphinx, Roman, 120-140 CE

[portalibis]

Double hermai of Eros and Aphrodite, created for a Roman collector after two masterpieces by artists from the circle of the Greek sculptor Phidias

Early Imperial Period, c. 35 A.D.