"Eros Thanatos"
Art Of The Mystic Otto Rapp
graphite on paper - 28 Inches x 20 Inches
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Freud theorized that the duality of human nature emerged from two basic instincts: Eros and Thanatos. He saw in Eros the instinct for life, love and sexuality in its broadest sense, and in Thanatos, the instinct of death, aggression. Eros is the drive toward attraction and reproduction
Thanatos toward repulsion and death. One leads to the reproduction of the species, the other toward its own destruction.
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