Abstract

This essay aims to retrace the pages of Georges Bataille’s Eroticism in search of what he defines as the «secret key» of the erotic experience. Like the mystical religious experience, «sacred» eroticism arises from the acceptance of our death, of finitude, and the castration, enlightening that openness to the possible and to life that only reveals itself in a coincidence of opposites and in a sort of passivity of the desire