Augustine on erection as divine punishment

As told 2

“God punished him, how? By exempting from man's power the one organ: penis... it can rise when you don't want to, when you desperately want to it doesn't.”
1:02:54 The Hegelian Wound2014-11-26 · 2:01:21

“I will take one of your organs, penis, and you will not control it... erection is the ultimate revenge of God toward men.”
1:17:50 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

death drive ×1 drive ×1 the fall ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Michele Bachmann1 Friedrich Schlegel1 Giovanni Gentile1 Zachary Mason1 Peter Sellars1 Isaac Luria1 Salvador Allende1 Alex Haley1

alongside works

De nuptiis et concupiscentia2 The Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography)1 New Life of the Intellect / Essays on Otherness1 Lectures on the History of Fine Arts1 Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown1 The Exception and the Rule1 21 Grams1 The Task of the Translator1

Told together with

15% Apartheid justified in multiculturalist terms 2 shared talks 9% Native Americans prefer 'Indians' 2 shared talks

Every retelling 2

1:02:54 The Hegelian Wound2014-11-26 · 2:01:21

Augustine (De nuptiis et concupiscentia) argues that the penis was exempted from man's conscious control as God's punishment for Adam's arrogance in wanting to be like God, the organ that resists will is the theological payback., illustrating Christianity and sexuality,Augustine's theology of sexuality and the Fall

1:17:50 At Nuit Blache2012-09-29 · 2:06:58

Augustine argued there was sex in Paradise but without arousal, sex as controlled as raising a hand to plow. After the Fall, God installed uncontrollable desire as punishment for man's hubris: erection as revenge, the organ that refuses to obey its owner., illustrating human sexuality,drive,religious genealogy of sexuality