Jul 12
“Depression represents the impossibility of love. Alternatively, it is the impossibility of love that has led to depression. Only the planet Melancholia, the atopic Other breaking into the inferno of the same, arouses erotic desire in Justine. The nude scene, at the rocks on the river’s edge, presents the body of a lover, aglow with sensuality. Eagerly, Justine writhes in the blue light of the heavenly body that is bringing death. The scene intimates that Justine in fact desires deadly collision with the atopic, wandering planet. She awaits approaching catastrophe as joyous union with her beloved.”
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Byung-Chul Han, Agony of Eros
5/6/20
