Cosmic love affair A young man walks in on Master Baruch and his wife in the midst of a heated argument. Startled, he quickly turns away. Baruch responds with a wink, âYou donât understand. You have just witnessed a discussion between God and the ...
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Mirrors of Desire and Wounded Healers? Part Three: Marc Gafni
Later, in a great epilogue to the story, the myth depicts Moses in the desert building the tabernacle. The tabernacle is essentially the first temple, replete with the ark, cherubs and holy of holies. Everyone is to bring his or her own special contr ...
Mirrors of Desire; part two: Marc Gafni
cont’d The Hebrew word for decree which I have inserted in the parentheses in the text is But this enslaved individual, whom we moderns recognize so well, has lost touch with the erotics of desire. The wonder of being on the inside â the sens ...
Mirrors of Desire: Marc Gafni
This blog seeks to unpack the beautiful text we cited in this mornings post. The myth understands that the erotics of desire is the dynamic that arouses the impulse to freedom and human dignity. Slavery is about the deadening of Eros and desire. The ...
The Politics of Repression, part two: Marc Gafni
Islamic fundamentalism was not the first to attempt at the repression of liberty through the crushing of the erotic and the sexual. There is an absolutely wonderful ancient tradition about eros and liberty. It describes how the Hebrew slaves managed ...
The Politics of Repression: Marc Gafni
Whenever we divorce sex from the overarching frameworks of eros we vastly diminish its power. If we either strip it of eros or alternatively make it the exclusive focus of our erotic desire then we exile the Shechina. The result is a crisis of emptin ...
Super Models and Cherubs; Read the Whole Post:) : Marc Gafni
{Y.M} this post, written before your question, I hope honors and addresses your question. The Shechinaâs exile is all too apparent even in Websterâs dictionary. Websterâs defines erotic as âtending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The ...
Super Models: part two
posted by dr. gafni assistant Paradoxically the place that understands this erotic secret well is the world of advertising. Even when television is bland and insipid, advertising is often erotic. Now we all realized long ago that advertising uses the ...
Mind the Gap: Marc Gafni
The Gapâs ad campaign in fall 2001 shows slender stylish young ladies, with a caption underneath that says, âMy First Loveâ. The reader/gazer/consumer expects some sexually provocative image or story to follow. Then comes the wonderful twist th ...
Super Models; part two; Marc Gafni
Moralists often accuse the advertisers of a great moral wrong in this kind of advertising. After all there seems to be a false suggestion that we will somehow get the girl if we buy the car. Moralists however often seem to think the rest of us are no ...
Super Models: Models of the Erotic: Marc Gafni
Supermodels The Shechinaâs exile is all too apparent even in Websterâs dictionary. Websterâs defines erotic as âtending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The sentence would be perfect without the word âsexual.â In the secret of the ...
a demand for depth; part four: marc gafni
cont’d…from David Foster Wallace That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let’s get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what “day in, day out” really means. The ...
a demand for depth; part three; marc gafni
cont’d David Foster Wallace As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head. Twenty years after my own graduation, I have ...
A demand for depth; part two; marc gafni
posted by dr. marc gafni assistant cont’d David Foster Wallace But please don’t worry that I’m getting ready to preach to you about compassion or other-directedness or the so-called “virtues.” This is not a matter of vir ...
A Demand for Depth; part one; marc gafni
Hi; I am a Dr. Marc Gafni assistant. He is away for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. He left several posts to be posted as I wish- over the next couple of days. They were written by a writer who took his own life a couple of weeks after giving this ...