i think i’ve finally started to understand what it is about the myth of eros and pshyche that i dislike so much, despite being a devout follower of eros.
and to be quite frank, it’s the politics of it all.
i’ve always said i love eros, but cupid leaves a bad taste in the mouth, despite the two supposedly being one in the same, though i’m aware beliefs differ.
eros at his core, to my understanding and belief, is the complete and total embodiment of sex for the sake of sex. sex for the sake of pleasure. sex for oneself.
it’s why he is a patron of queer love (queer male love to be precise), a patron of sex with no profit.
then along come the romans. they give him a wife and a child. because recreational sex did not garner them a profit. any kind of non-child-making sex was demonised for the simple fact of bodily capitalism.
they go further in then making cupid a child himself, the figure of eroticism is now placed with the face of a child. how odd, i had always thought, it seemed gross and predatory, and predictably heterosexual. sex and children were now synonymous, it should be seen as impossible to have sex without the eventual result of a child.
and that’s what irks me so much, how completely eros is defaced in the creation of cupid. he is no longer a symbol of sensuality, pleasure, or quite literally ERO(S)ticism. he is now a symbol of capitalistic self-preduction, a symbol of purely heterosexual sex, and not even for pleasure.
it’s why i’ve always had an issue with eros and psyche but never eros and psyche themselves, alone as separate entities.
but idk, maybe that’s just me.
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