Relation érotique et altérité féminine dans la pensée d’Emmanuel Levinas

Abstract

Too often love is akin to sex, woman, pleasure, need or libido. This is to fink that the feminine gives, by its morphology, more to see, more to say and more to hear as if the woman were reduced to the rank of a simple erotic object. In the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, it is voluntarily that the theme of love and the expressions which translate it as human experiences singularly encounter the woman in what she has most sensitive, namely: « the erotic nudity ». Here love is certainly a phenomenon that is given in flesh and blood, but it is confusing by its complexity when it exhibits the woman in a veiled manner. The whole point of this reflection is to show that love is expressed in the erotic relationship which exposes the nudity of women without fusion or possession, on the condition of preserving her otherness as well as her being.