Islamic fundamentalism was not the first to attempt at the repression of liberty through the crushing of the erotic and the sexual. There is an absolutely wonderful ancient tradition about eros and liberty. It describes how the Hebrew slaves managed ...
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The Politics of Repression: Marc Gafni
Whenever we divorce sex from the overarching frameworks of eros we vastly diminish its power. If we either strip it of eros or alternatively make it the exclusive focus of our erotic desire then we exile the Shechina. The result is a crisis of emptin ...
Super Models and Cherubs; Read the Whole Post:) : Marc Gafni
{Y.M} this post, written before your question, I hope honors and addresses your question. The Shechina’s exile is all too apparent even in Webster’s dictionary. Webster’s defines erotic as “tending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The ...
Super Models: part two
posted by dr. gafni assistant Paradoxically the place that understands this erotic secret well is the world of advertising. Even when television is bland and insipid, advertising is often erotic. Now we all realized long ago that advertising uses the ...
Mind the Gap: Marc Gafni
The Gap’s ad campaign in fall 2001 shows slender stylish young ladies, with a caption underneath that says, ‘My First Love’. The reader/gazer/consumer expects some sexually provocative image or story to follow. Then comes the wonderful twist th ...
Super Models; part two; Marc Gafni
Moralists often accuse the advertisers of a great moral wrong in this kind of advertising. After all there seems to be a false suggestion that we will somehow get the girl if we buy the car. Moralists however often seem to think the rest of us are no ...
Super Models: Models of the Erotic: Marc Gafni
Supermodels The Shechina’s exile is all too apparent even in Webster’s dictionary. Webster’s defines erotic as “tending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The sentence would be perfect without the word “sexual.” In the secret of the ...
a demand for depth; part four: marc gafni
cont’d…from David Foster Wallace That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let’s get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what “day in, day out” really means. The ...
a demand for depth; part three; marc gafni
cont’d David Foster Wallace As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head. Twenty years after my own graduation, I have ...
A demand for depth; part two; marc gafni
posted by dr. marc gafni assistant cont’d David Foster Wallace But please don’t worry that I’m getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called “virtues.” This is not a matter of vir ...
A Demand for Depth; part one; marc gafni
Hi; I am a Dr. Marc Gafni assistant. He is away for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. He left several posts to be posted as I wish- over the next couple of days. They were written by a writer who took his own life a couple of weeks after giving this ...
Yichud=Eros
Yom Kippur is the day of Yichud. Complete Unification. Let the blog below manifest Yichud. May we all be sealed in the book of life. In Luriannic myth, these are the 288 sparks of light that remained in the shattered vessels of the Kings after they d ...
Dostoyevsky’s Dad: Marc Gafni
Freud said after reading Dostoyevsky, “Here, psychoanalysis must lay down its arms,” so overwhelmed was he by the sublime and erotic power of that which he read. And yet Freud, unable to resist, soon after returns to Dostoyevsky trying to locate ...
Freud and Mother’s Love: Marc Gafni
Certainly Freud was important in moving us to look at ourselves and pay attention to our inner lives. Particular at the pranic, emotional sexual, second chakra level of existence. He made a huge contribution here both to understanding and to well bei ...