Chapter 1990 Love and Desire (Seeking Guaranteed Monthly Pass!!! Please Subscribe!!! Please Recommend!!!)

In fact, compared to the gods in Chinese mythology, the gods of Olympus have no sectarian views. Male gods can marry mortal women, and goddesses can also fall in love with mortal men. No one will stop them... On the contrary, many beauties have to be careful about being harmed by gods.

Among them, Zeus is pretty good, at least he can be a little flirty most of the time, such as pretending or something. Of course, sometimes his tastes are a bit strong, such as turning into a swan, a cow, and hell, he can also turn into a golden rain. By the way, he has also turned into a woman to get closer to his goal. The most awesome one is his transformation. He became a giant eagle and robbed beautiful men (Ganymede was the youngest son (yes, male) of King Tros of Troy.

I don't know why his taste is so unique.

But this is better than Poseidon. Poseidon never falls in love, he is always superior!

Even Poseidon's legal wife was snatched away!

The myth goes like this: 'In the deep seabed stands the magnificent palace of Poseidon, the great brother of Zeus and the shaker of the earth. Poseidon rules the sea. He holds a trident, and as long as his hand moves slightly, the waves must obey. Living with Poseidon in the depths of the sea was his wife Amphitrite. She was the daughter of Nereus, the old sea god who could foretell bad luck. She was snatched away from her father by Poseidon, the great master of the sea. of. Once, Poseidon saw her dancing on the shore of Naxos with her sisters, the daughters of Nereus. Poseidon was fascinated by Amphitrite's beauty and immediately wanted to pull her into the car and take her away, but Amphitrite hid behind the Titan god Atlas who was carrying the sky on his strong shoulders. Winter failed to find her for a long time, and then a dolphin told Poseidon where she was hiding. Poseidon snatched Amphitrite from Atlas and arranged the dolphins as constellations in the sky. ’

It is said, it is said.

This is the origin of the Dolphin constellation... Anyway, it is impossible for Chinese people to understand its meaning.

In a story about raping a common girl, the villain who snitched actually had such great achievements... He even ascended to the sky and became a constellation... It was simply outrageous.

Anyway, from these stories, we can see what kind of stupidity these gods in Olympus are!

So they actually don't care much about things between men and women.

Although Pluto and Queen doted on Melinoe very much, they had no intention of letting her become an old maid... Although the Olympian pantheon revered chaste virgins, except for a few priests of the gods who needed to maintain their perfect bodies, Other gods are very open to this, and they themselves will not abide by any rules and regulations.

At least it's much stronger than China's strict hierarchy, where you can't go too far! (To be honest, I have never understood what can be done to stop the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and the Seventh Fairy Dong Yong. Isn’t it just love between men and women? You are allowed to have the Queen Mother, but other gods are not allowed to have wives? Besides, many branches of Taoism Marriage leave is not allowed. Even Buddhism, only our Chinese lineage prohibits marriage leave. You must know that in Before the Ming Dynasty, it was not a big deal for monks to eat meat and marry their wives! Why was it banned when it came to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl couples? In this regard, ancient Greek mythology was very open. Damn it, other people could do anything, men and women, men and women, etc. Even small animals are not prohibited. As for those that violate the general ethics, there are even more.)

So they won't be angry because Melinoe is in love.

But they would be angry because Aphrodite used a golden web to make her daughter fall in love.

Firstly, it's because they all hate Aphrodite, and secondly... there's something wrong with Aphrodite, or in other words, any couple who is matched up by her personally will fall apart and end up in tragedy!

Her love is passionate and impulsive, but it will never be perfect.

So the best outcome for Melinoe is to be slightly injured, and the worst outcome... maybe life and death!

This is why Aphrodite, who clearly represents love, will never be loyal to one partner.

So Charon was very worried before, but now his mood is much better. After all, the target is a foreign god. Well, he can survive it, at least he won't die in the end. What's great is that he is lovelorn.

Gods live a long life, who hasn’t fallen out of love once or twice?

So it's not a big deal.

"Let's go quickly! Otherwise, that bitch and Hades will find out something. Then we won't be able to leave even if we want to!"

Seeing that the trouble was temporarily resolved, Aphrodite quickly urged Charon to sail away.

Charon's whole face was wrinkled together. He regretted it extremely now. He hoped that the great Kroros could appear and allow him to travel through time and go back to the past. He would give himself a slap in the face to wake himself up. Who knows a simple thing? This is how business will turn out. [Cronus, the youngest of the twelve Titans and the father of Zeus, Cronus is usually described as a wise old man with a long gray beard and the father of time. In fact, in real-life mythology, Cronus is not a time titan, he is just a simple god-king, but his name is worshiped by Orpheus (also known as Orphism), one of the three mainstream sects. The original god and the father of time, Chronos, are confused. The ancient Greek spellings of the two are very similar, with only one letter difference, so they are always confused. Here they are directly combined]

This is because Charon has been staying in the underworld and does not know the conflict between Zeus and Asgard. Otherwise, he would not just slap himself twice.

Sometimes, ignorance does not know whether it is luck or misfortune.

The Styx and the real universe are not in the same dimension, so the speed of time is not the same. In the real universe, only two solar hours have passed, but in the underworld, three full days have passed. Of course, this speed is not fixed. Sometimes, a year in the Styx is only one day in the real universe.

This is a dimension created by the gods with great power. The laws are not complete and completely serve the gods, so things like time have no substantive meaning here.

Of course, it is different for the people inside.

At least Thor and Melinoe's feelings are heating up quickly.

At the beginning, after Aphrodite took down the golden net, Melinoe wanted to have a duel between women with Aphrodite.

But Thor stopped her.

At that time, the two were like elementary school students who had just fallen in love. The two sides separated as soon as their bodies touched. The two did not even dare to look at each other directly. The atmosphere was so youthful that those who didn't know would think they were watching some youth campus love story... But fortunately, Thor is a rough guy.

He is more direct and simple. If he likes someone, he will say it out loud. There is nothing to hide.

He began to ask the girl's name actively.

Melinoe was like a little girl who was having her first taste of love, evasively saying her name.

But soon, very soon.

The two began to talk enthusiastically.

Only Charon felt annoyed... He was an old hand, and didn't care much about love... To be honest, he was the same as Poseidon. When he saw a pretty girl and was in the mood, he would just go for it.

Straightforward.

They were not just stalking the edge of crime, they were directly heading for crime.

In fact, these gods who were born before Aphrodite didn't know what love was. The ancient god of love Eros, although he was called the god of love, was actually more like the god of desire. He represented the most primitive impulse and the instinct of reproduction. That thing is not called love...

Should we praise the incomparable joy brought by love, or condemn the intense pain and despair brought by love, should we praise its life-giving virtues, or expose its cruelty and illusion? This is also a question that psychoanalysts and writers have to weigh. People have always tried to define and understand love. Some people say that love is pure altruism, some people say that love is equality, some people say that love is about absolute trust, some people think that love is eternal, and some people think that love is momentary... But these statements only grasp certain aspects of love on the surface, and cannot really explore its essence.

Jacques Lacan (French writer, doctor, scholar, psychoanalyst, also considered a structuralist) believes that: We cannot say anything meaningful or judgmental about love. When we start talking about love, we fall into a low energy state, that is, into a state of emotion and feelings. It is difficult to conduct objective, meaningful or judgmental discussions. Love is defined by Lacan as a purely imaginative phenomenon, which involves the subject's fantasy and projection of the object. Love is self-erotic and fundamentally has a narcissistic structure, because what we love in love is our own self. It is our own self that becomes real at the level of imagination. In other words, we do not love the real object itself, but our own inner imagination. We idealize ourselves as a perfect existence, and the person we love becomes the complement deep in our hearts. Love involves a kind of imaginary reciprocity, because the essence of love is to hope to be loved by the other party. It is this reciprocity between love and being loved that constitutes the illusion of love. We hope to be loved and hope that the person we love can understand and accept our inner world. This process of mutual projection and understanding constitutes the illusion of love and is also a kind of complement for our inner lack. In addition, love is a false fantasy that fills the absence of any sexual relationship through fusion with the loved one. This absence makes the subject's projection and imagination of the loved one in the relationship of love more intense and urgent, because the subject tries to fill this lack by fusion with the object. In this imagination, the loved one becomes a symbol and extension of the subject itself. Through the relationship with the loved one, the subject tries to make up for his own inner deficiencies and deficiencies, thereby obtaining a sense of satisfaction, but this sense of satisfaction and security is only an illusion and imagination, and it cannot really solve the desires and sense of lack deep in the subject's heart. Therefore, sexual desires and needs in love are often an unrealizable fiction, and they can only be satisfied in the subject's imagination and fantasy. This is particularly clear in the asexual conception of “classical love.”

The asexual concept of classical love reflects the nature of this imagination and fantasy. The love and emotion in it are often based on a sexless idealization and imagination. Therefore, Lacan believes that love is deceptive. As a false environment of mirror reflection, love is essentially deceptive. The reason why it is deceptive is that it involves giving what you don’t have, that is, phallus. Love is giving what you don’t have. Love is not directed to what the object of love has, but to what you lack, to the nothingness beyond yourself. The reason why this object is given value is that it comes to that missing position. That is, we will fill the emptiness and lack in our hearts through the object of love, especially the needs that were not met in childhood. In this case, love can indeed be regarded as a satisfaction and self-realization of desire. People also often escape their own sense of lack and existential insecurity through love relationships, thus producing a (false) satisfaction in emotion.

Between love and desire, we can even say that love kills desire, because the basis of love is the fantasy of integration with the loved one, which abolishes the difference that prompts desire. But this sense of satisfaction is not permanent, because the fantasy of love is a deceptive illusion. When we find that the person we love cannot completely fill the sense of loss in our hearts, we tend to fall back into an endless chain of symbols and be driven by desire again. Therefore, we can say that love does not completely eliminate desire, but temporarily conceals the existence of desire, allowing us to temporarily escape the torture of desire. In addition, Lacan also believes that the fantasy nature of love leads to people's blindness and misunderstanding of love. People confuse love with sexual desire and think that the existence of love is based on sexual relations. However, in Lacan's view, sexual relations do not exist, because sexual desire is not equivalent to sexual behavior, but a driving force of human instinct and an important part of human behavior. Love is a more complex and multi-layered emotional state, which involves the need for self-identification and recognition of others, the desire for security and integrity, and so on. Therefore, although love and sexual desire are related, they are not the same, and we should be more aware of this when exploring the nature of love.

Love, in itself, is more advanced than desire, but it cannot be separated from desire.

But the problem is that Charon was born before Aphrodite, so he only has desires, not love.

He can't understand why the two young people are being so pretentious.

In his opinion, if they like each other, they will just go straight, and if they don't like each other, they will also go straight, and then it will just depend on who is stronger.