Love 'n' Death...in 2017?

"See, my Sweetheart, Eros & Thanatos is kind of an old-fashioned topic in the age of Tinder, sadly. :)" - x

This is how this post was born: a random virtual contact on social media, my legendary curiosity and the sudden, stormy, mutual need of sharing ideas and thoughts on a higher level.

Life Instincts (Eros)

Sometimes referred to as sexual instincts, the life instincts are those which deal with basic survival, pleasure, and reproduction. These instincts are essential for sustaining the life of the individual as well as the continuation of the species. While we tend to think of life instincts in term of sexual procreation, these drives also include such things as thirst, hunger, and pain avoidance. The energy created by the life instincts is known as libido.

(...) Behaviors commonly associated with the life instincts include love, cooperation, and other ​prosocial actions.​

Death Instincts (Thanatos)

The concept of the death instincts was initially described in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in which Freud proposed that “the goal of all life is death.” 

In support of his theory, Freud noted that people who experience a traumatic event would often reenact that experience. From this, he concluded that people hold an unconscious desire to die but that the life instincts largely temper this wish.

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In Freud’s view, the compulsion to repeat was "something that would seem more primitive, more elementary, more instinctual than the pleasure principle which it overrides." He further proposed that the death instincts were an extension of that compulsion wherein all living organisms have an instinctive "pressure toward death" which stands in stark contrast to the instinct to survive, procreate, and satisfy desires.
Moreover, when this energy is directed outward toward others, Freud maintained, it is expressed as aggression and violence.

SOURCE: https://www.verywell.com/freudian-theory-2795845

Now that our friend/enemy Sigmund helped us making these basic terms clear, we would like to bring you back in time.

Remember Orpheus and Eurydice, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet etc.?

But ok, let's leave couples and romance aside for a second and mention Beowulf in and even on a religious level Jesus Christ who sacrificed their lives in the attempt of saving their folk out of cosmic love...

Who would do that nowadays?

Who would die for (any kind of) love in times like these?

 

 

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