There is not only need for tenderness, there is also need to be tender for the other: we shut ourselves up in a mutual kindness, we mother each other reciprocally; we must return to the root of all relations, where need and desire join. The tender gesture says: ask me anything that can put your bod…
I refuse to recognize the division of our image, the other’s alterity.
"It is a glorious summer, and I often sit up in the trees of Lotle’s orchard and take down with a long pole the pears from the highest branches. She stands below and catches them when I lower the pole.” Werther is telling his story, ready and speaks in the present tense, but his scene already has t…