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What does Eros mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.
Name
  1. A male given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The God of love.
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For you see, if it was I may just have to run to Eros and inform him of what a big meany his girlfriend is.
He has already committed to shooting one third of the portmanteau film Eros, with directors he was worked with before.
However, he argues further that if Freud is correct, the balance to Thanatos is Eros, or the love of life.
Here was Norman O. Brown's vision of Eros and Thanatos translated into brilliant novelistic terms.
For a discussion of Eros, Philia and Agape, visit the Philosophy of Love page.
Surely that's necessary, but as Freud pointed out almost a century ago, Thanatos and Eros are hard to keep apart.

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