id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9142 Eros (concept) - Wikipedia .html text/html 3540 382 70 Eros has also been used in philosophy and psychology in a much wider sense, almost as an equivalent to "life energy".[1] Protestant author C.S. Lewis posits it as one of the four ancient Greek words for love in Christianity, alongside storge, philia, and agape.[2] In the classical world, erotic love was generally referred to as a kind of madness or theia mania ("madness from the gods").[3] This love passion was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological schema involving "love's arrows" or "love darts", the source of which was often the personified figure of Eros (or his Latin counterpart, Cupid),[4] or another deity (such as Rumor).[5] At times the source of the arrows was said to be the image of the beautiful love object itself. In his 1925 paper "The Resistances to Psycho-Analysis",[26] Freud explains that the psychoanalytic concept of sexual energy is more in line with the Platonic view of eros, as expressed in the Symposium, than with the common use of the word "sex" as related primarily to genital activity. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9142.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9142.txt