Eros and Agape

Er#xC3;#xB3;s and Agap#xC3;#xA9;: A Case For Healing The Split is a concise study on the roots of violence. The author shows in a step-by-step approach that is intelligible also to the lay reader that violence as a #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;negative pleasure function#xE2;#xAC;" is by and large the result of a functional distortion of the human energy field. He coined twenty years of research on human emotions in their quality as bioenergetic streamings in the slogan that #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;violence begins inside#xE2;#xAC;", explaining in detail that the overarching etiology of individual, domestic, sexual, collective and structural violence is killing off desire as a result of moralistic perversion and life-denial. What distinguishes this study is that it presents research evidence for the often overlooked bioenergetic origins of violence showing that the historical turndown of the human pleasure function through the replacement of genuine erotic loving attraction with compulsive morality or moralism and love prohibitions resulted in an inevitable upsurge of violence because all desire, all love, all genuine eroticism we repress and deny turns against us; then, the vital energy that feeds desire reverses its polarity and becomes demonic. In addition, the author reviews research on early tactile deprivation conducted by Herbert James Campbell, James W. Prescott, Ashley Montagu, Frederick Leboyer, Michel Odent and others that shows the importance of early tactile pleasure in infancy and childhood for the development of the neurointegrative brain and the learning of peaceful, affectionate behaviors. All research points to the undeniable fact that violence is learnt, not inborn, and not part of natural human behavior, a response of the biosystem to the denial of pleasure in whatever form it occurs. As such, the author argues, violence really is a collective perversion in all societies that replaced genuine erotic attraction with the moralistic distinction of love into er#xC3;#xB3;s and agap#xC3;#xA9;. The most important research results are:#xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Violence is learnt, not inborn, and not part of natural human behavior;#xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Violence is a response of the biosystem to the denial of pleasure/desire;#xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Violence is a collective malfunctioning of a society that replaced love with moralism.The study contains a draft bill that abolishes criminal prosecution of all sexual behaviors, grants children the right for free-choice relations, and allows intergenerational sex without for that matter giving a free license to the cause of pedophilia. The bill also provides clear guidelines what constitutes a consenting embrace vs. sexual violence against a child. For cases, where violence was used to entice a child into sexual compliance, a form of state-trusted consultancy is stipulated by the bill that endows consultants with the task to consult the law-breaker for up to five years.