A Dictionary of Symbols by Juan Eduardo Cirlot

Author:Juan Eduardo Cirlot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

LOVED ONE, THE The woman loved, in the light of the Gnostic idea of the beloved as a mediator personified in Sophia (q.v.) and the Catharist view of human love as a form of mysticism, ceases to be a vessel for the perpetuation of the species and becomes a profoundly spiritual and spiritualizing entity, as in Dante, the paintings of Rossetti, the most exalted of the romantics, or in André Breton (L’Amour fou). The earliest and purest expression of this conception of the beloved seems to have occurred in Persia.

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