#georges bataille

[knifeofdreams]

“Even after psychoanalysis, the contradictory aspects of eroticism appear in some way innumerable; their profundity is religious - it is horrible, it is tragic, it is still inadmissible. Probably all the more so because it is divine”. Georges Bataille in Tears of Eros

[keuscheliebe]

[terrorignitis]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[sluug]

Hans Bellmer’s illustration for Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille, 1944

[anticbrvtalist]

André Masson, Georges Bataille, Sacrifices 1936

[twothousandeight]

1. Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller

2. George Bataille, Erotism: Death And Sensuality, trans. Mary Dalwood

[abjectofvenus]

[namedvesta]

Georges Bataille, from Collected Poems (trans. Mark Spitzer)