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Dark Eros

I want to share some ideas and thoughts with you that emerged from the two lectures given by Thomas Moore on the eponymously named Dark Eros seminar series. Dark Eros (1990) (1) is Thomas Moore’s psychological reading of the works of the infamous Marquis de Sade (2) and application of this work to depth psychology. These ideas are startling and cannot but disturb the psychic slumber of even the dullest reader. They are illuminating – albeit a dark illumination, a kind...