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Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.6
EAN: 9780882143651
Edition: 2 Revised
ISBN: 0882143654
Label: Spring Publications
Manufacturer: Spring Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 1995-01
Publisher: Spring Publications
Studio: Spring Publications
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Editorial Review:
The author of the National Bestsellers Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Soul of Sex turns to the shadow side of loving and therapy: its cruelties, perversions, and appalling tortures.
In Dark Eros, Thomas Moore shines a new light on the dark fictions of the Marquis de Sade to learn what they teach about the horrors hidden in the human heart, revealing the poetic and imaginitive powers that lie within violence and sexual victimization. By returning to the paradox of ancient medicine—the cause of a disease is its very cure—Thomas Moore opens the way through sadism that affects family, education, love affairs, the work place and politics.
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Rating:  - Holy vs. Whole
Mention the word "sadism" and the results it produces will vary from an embarrassed Victorian blush to righteous indignation that such things should exist at all, not to mention it being a topic for discussion among proper and civilized human beings. Yet to Thomas Moore, a former monk and Jungian analyst and writer, it is precisely this topic that needs to be explored mentally, even spiritually, in order to prevent it from erupting into anti-social, or even criminal acts in the flesh.
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Rating:  - Open debate for scientific progress
Moore provides a quick tour on Sade's perspective in a very objective and comprehensive tone. The end of the book is devoted to therapeutics: form sadistic behavior to Sadeian perspective.
You have to be familiar either with sadomasochism or Sade's work to take the most of the book, as it doesn't provide easy answers. Though, this is one of the most empathetic works I'd ever read. In a theme commonly catalogued and limited as a sexual perversion, the text enables honest, practical discussion.
Rating:  - If you search, you will find it.
Thomas Moore's "Dark Eros" has a clear agenda to achieve -- to show that Sade was a genius who saw the reality of the human mind and emotional needs. Unfortunately this agenda clouds his logic at times and limits the quotations and questions he addresses in his book. If you haven't read Sade yourself, please do so before you get this book then judge the comments and theories promoted in this book. This is not to say that Moore analysis is poor or completely incorrect, just that by being ... Read More
Rating: - I want to thank James Reed
For now, i would only like to thank you for your insight into the Marquis De Sade and i have not read the recommended book yet. Suffice it to say i was about to slip back into the depravity he has gifted us with. I am into bondage and sadomasochism and i've recently seen the movie "Quills". It gave me the thirst again....for the perversion and depravity of the mind...for the pain and the pleasure intermingled. I was searching for anything ABOUT the Marquis.....but i started to get drawn into ... Read More
Rating: - Is the Marquis de Sade misunderstood?
Over the years the Grand Marquis has been receiving a pretty bad rap. Has he been misunderstood? What Thomas Moore shows in this book is that without the dark side we would not have the bright side, the light. There is a purpose for the dark; it can be both instructive and healing. If you plan on reading anything by de Sade, read this book first. If you are a firm believer that everything is black or white, good or bad, this book might change the way you think. And isn't that what books are for?
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