![]() ![]() In no other case does Eros so clearly betray the core of his being, his purpose of making one out of more than one but when he has achieved this in the proverbial way through the love of two human beings, he refuses to go further. When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves, and do not even need the child they have in common to make them happy. Sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals. This English translation was published in 1961.) Paragraph numbers apply to this excerpt, not the original Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930Įxcerpts from Digitized Original at the Internet ![]()
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