Note’s on Umberto Galimberti’s “le cose dell’amore”

Non per gli amori carnali gli amanti stanno uno accanto all’altro ma parlano in modo enigmatico e buio

Love is enigmatic

Love for Plato links humans and gods

Gods are seen as human predecessors

Distress is the loss of reference

For Plato is needed to find a universal structure

Gods represent madness

Love is between our rational part and our madness part

Poetry is madness but the best madness is love

Desire = lack

Love translates the rational language to our mad part and the mad language to our rational part

Love with another person --> knowing of the mad part

Maintain a certain privacy, personality, to always make the other search

Love is wanting to recompose the ancient unity