Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
Le sens dernier de l'érotisme est la fusion, la suppression de la limite. En son premier mouvement, l'érotisme n'en est pas moins signifié par la position d'un l'objet du désir.
The extreme meaning of eroticism is fusion, the suppression of the boundary. In its first movement, eroticism is nonetheless signified by the position of an object of desire.
Georges Bataille, Œuvres complètes X: L'Èrotisme, Le Proces de Gilles de Rais, Les Larmes D'Èros (translation by me)
