Autore: Nucci, Matteo
Titolo: Eros e Libertà
Periodico: Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana
Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 21 - Pagina finale: 36

It is a widespread belief, today as much as in the day of archaic Greek poetry,that those who are in love are not free, but rather slaves, prisoners of the desireto become conjoined with their beloved. This is the love of Aphrodite, sexualdesire; authentic erotic desire is instead the love of Eros, understood as a psychictension, a relationship between two lovers who remain free. This is the kind oflove described by Plato in the Symposium through Diotima’s speech, deliveredby Socrates, which explains why he refused to unite with Alcibiades. True lovemeans freedom, self-sufficiency and independence as part of couple. But how is itpossible to be self-sufficient and independent? By knowing oneself, taking care ofone’s soul, taking the time to look within, detaching oneself from the goods andobligations of the world around us. The re-appropriation of time, its subversion,its suspension, is the key to everything. It is the suspension which Plato invitesus to perform in Phaedrus, when – in a description that finds no parallels in thedialogues – he shows Socrates leaving the city, and stopping to rest under a tree.This rest is not sleep intended to restore the body from daily toils and to prepare itfor other labors, but a time to engage in dialogue, to heal the soul. The suspensionof time is the sap of authentic erotic desire: it is the time which Odysseus andPenelope take for themselves, in an exemplary way, when they meet again afterspending twenty years apart.


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