A corps perdu

The author attempts to define 'eroticism' on the basis of the
two Apollonian and Dionysian categories of Nietzschian
philosophy, supporting the hypothesis that eroticism is born of
the endangering of the ""perfectly beautiful form'' of the
Apollonian body by the Dionysian force and the visual and
emotional tensions which consequently ensue. A search has been
made for this erotic tension, far away from any notions of the
body in an Apollonian sense; through androgenous and
transvestite forms, in the depth of wounds, in the unformed and
the deformed and finally close to death itself. (Amended
published abstract, French)