On the topic of good friend Eros
Posted: 22 Dec 2020 09:49
https://frithluton.com/articles/eros/
https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blo ... g-on-eros/
Eros is often associated with raw unfiltered love,desire, or lust. Ignorantly associated with an uncontrollable sexual desire, which mind you, pisses everyone off when you further that outside of naivety.
Love incarnate, born with the original primordials out of chaos,every Greek deity was swayed by love in some way.
He reincarnated or was reinvented as the child of Venus and Mars. Beauty/Mercy and War/Severity. He uses a weapon, to incite the exact opposite of destruction, Eros would be a master of war on level with his father but at the most “destructive” he simply strikes one with lead arrows. Eros is to also be considered all of the Erotes combined. Symbolizing the throws of love and it’s nearly unstable nature. Jung even saying it’s more animal, but in reality this force and deity reaches from amoebas to the stars. It is one of the few true bridges of all we have experienced.
Most would say Eros acts only on passion and not thought, which is not true, it is structured. When Eros meets Psyche, the mind symbolizing the unification of heart and mind, moon and sun or vice versa, he is cloathed in darkness, and tells her he is an awful beast and never to look at him. This is a test of true love in a way, but Psyche ignores and chooses to see herself something that would’ve been eventually revealed and sees it’s a handsome young man, but the candle wax from her candle drips onto his chest and wakes him up. In most myths he immediately flies away and leaves her behind, some myths he returns and learns to forgive. It’s generally considered he was mad she went against him but returned out of real love.
The unification of Mind and Heart is one of the ultimate goals in any lifetime or any incarnation, to understand what you want and why and to prove it. Instead of either overthinking dispassionately or acting entirely on emotion. It is a union of opposites.
Jung generally will label Eros as feminine but of course according to his own philosophy men possess it too, and same with Logos being of man.
The story of Eros and Psyche deliberately reverses these gender roles on purpose, to explain that true love dissolves those egregious archetypes while also fulfilling them both in entirety.
https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blo ... g-on-eros/
Eros is often associated with raw unfiltered love,desire, or lust. Ignorantly associated with an uncontrollable sexual desire, which mind you, pisses everyone off when you further that outside of naivety.
Love incarnate, born with the original primordials out of chaos,every Greek deity was swayed by love in some way.
He reincarnated or was reinvented as the child of Venus and Mars. Beauty/Mercy and War/Severity. He uses a weapon, to incite the exact opposite of destruction, Eros would be a master of war on level with his father but at the most “destructive” he simply strikes one with lead arrows. Eros is to also be considered all of the Erotes combined. Symbolizing the throws of love and it’s nearly unstable nature. Jung even saying it’s more animal, but in reality this force and deity reaches from amoebas to the stars. It is one of the few true bridges of all we have experienced.
Most would say Eros acts only on passion and not thought, which is not true, it is structured. When Eros meets Psyche, the mind symbolizing the unification of heart and mind, moon and sun or vice versa, he is cloathed in darkness, and tells her he is an awful beast and never to look at him. This is a test of true love in a way, but Psyche ignores and chooses to see herself something that would’ve been eventually revealed and sees it’s a handsome young man, but the candle wax from her candle drips onto his chest and wakes him up. In most myths he immediately flies away and leaves her behind, some myths he returns and learns to forgive. It’s generally considered he was mad she went against him but returned out of real love.
The unification of Mind and Heart is one of the ultimate goals in any lifetime or any incarnation, to understand what you want and why and to prove it. Instead of either overthinking dispassionately or acting entirely on emotion. It is a union of opposites.
Jung generally will label Eros as feminine but of course according to his own philosophy men possess it too, and same with Logos being of man.
The story of Eros and Psyche deliberately reverses these gender roles on purpose, to explain that true love dissolves those egregious archetypes while also fulfilling them both in entirety.


















