Desire and Transgression: Erotism in Georges Bataille Authors Maider Tornos Urzainki Unviersitat de Barcelona Keywords: erotism, transgression, ontology of absence, violence, death Abstract In today's society, humans have lost their sacred dimension. According to Bataille, humans have progressively moved away from that intimacy which defines them as human beings to take refuge in a lifeless world (the world of work as opposed to the world of party and desire). Not content with this vulgar reality, Bataille seeks ecstasy, the violence of boundless jouissance, to go beyond the limits of a banal reality. With the theory on erotism, an ontological question about the subject who structures his thought, Bataille attempts to destroy the foundations of society, whose power stems from the repression of desire. By keeping a violent relationship with "the other", the erotic subject gains access to the inside of his own body, where the Being's void is revealed -the "not-being" of the erotic subject: death. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2011-11-28 Issue No. 16 (2010): Mujeres en Asia Oriental Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
