{"id":2625,"date":"2025-11-28T10:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/senza-categoria\/chapter-6-eros-and-the-emergence-of-the-self\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:04:12","slug":"chapter-6-eros-and-the-emergence-of-the-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/figuremergenti.it\/en\/pubblications\/chapter-6-eros-and-the-emergence-of-the-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 6: Eros and the Emergence of the Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The chapter reconceives the self, in Gestalt terms, as a process that arises at the organism\u2013environment contact boundary rather than as an inner, preformed entity. It argues that Eros\u2014understood as a primordial, creative sexual force\u2014energizes this emergence: in the \u201czero phase\u201d of pre-contact, a fertile void of awareness allows figures to form from background, guided by bodily resonance (including subtle genital reverberations) that lends physiological strength to intentionality. Against dualistic, patriarchal reductions of sexuality to control or mere reproduction, Eros is framed as a unifying, transformative power that co-creates possibilities with the world. The text clarifies how spontaneity, meditation-like presence, and the suspension of compulsive dichotomies diminish anxiety (seen as a defense against awareness) and support the felt unity of self and situation. Drawing on affordances and intercorporeality, it describes micro-synchronies through which shared intention crystallizes into action. Sexuality and aggression are complementary: \u201cdental\u201d aggression deconstructs introjects and rigidities so novelty can be assimilated, while oral\/anal destructiveness is cautioned against. Because humans are intrinsically dependent, autonomy grows by widening reliable supports, balancing novelty with background security; where security is minimal (e.g., psychosis), Eros can become disorganizing rather than creative. 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