Perhaps the mention of "love" will bore most men and a few women, but love is indeed an experience that everyone must experience. In philosophy, this experience is called the original experience. It is indeed a sad thing if someone has never experienced the original experience of love in his life. Of course, the "love" the author is talking about here is not the "sparrow turning into a phoenix" "love" called "daydream" in some girls' comics, nor is it the "love" "surrounded by beautiful women" in some juvenile comics. That's called "peach blossom luck", but it specifically refers to "love" in the philosophical and aesthetic sense.

Love is mainly divided into two categories in philosophy: "erōs" (the desire for unity) and "philia" (the love of friendship). It is a central subject of philosophy in any country and in any era. Because the structure and phenomenon of love are so complex, it is almost impossible to express it accurately using another word. Love often includes the desire to become one with the object of love. In other words, love is unity and must include the process of unity and union. But things have two sides to one body, and "unity" means "separation" at the same time. The ancient Greek philosopher and poet Empedocule said: “Love always unites with the beloved and becomes one, and the beginning of union, that is, the beginning of separation, is caused by quarrel (neikos) and hatred (echthos). ) The beginning of the dominance stage. "Like all things in the universe, love and hate appear alternately, and the human emotional field is the stage for their movement. If you analyze "The Wedge" from this point of view, you will suddenly understand the cause of the strange and even grotesque relationship between Iason and Riki.

Iason's uncontrollable desire for exclusive possession of Riki led to hostility towards opponents who hindered him. This was the biggest reason why he persecuted Riki's partners (there was also a secondary reason to cut off Riki from the homeless people). The connection left him with no place to go back to except his own side). Love itself is virtue, but it provokes a battle between virtues. The essence of "exclusion" is "evil", but you have to fight in order to get love, so love has both unity and exclusivity. Love is a strong self-assertion that borders on madness. Plato called this "the mania of the soul at the mercy of the god erōs." Behavior governed by the power of love often violates convention, but generally it is not the same as the behavior of a morbid madman. The famous Japanese esthetician Imamichi Yushin once said: "If we can call love a great moral martyr, then we can also say that love is the motivation for cruelty without ambition." The abuse Iason inflicted on Riki (It's more mental than physical, such as humiliating his self-esteem, etc.) This is a concrete manifestation of this point of view.

It is worth mentioning that, whether in primitive times or in today's world, love never takes law as a premise. It has the power to influence the formulation and destruction of laws, and countless tragedies of love arise from this. , especially in literary works (my favorites include "The Scarlet Letter", "The Divine Comedy", "The Thorn Birds", etc.). Iason's breaking of Tanagra's established rules and taking Riki as a pet completely proves this statement.

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, the word love means cuteness and attachment. Sometimes it is also used as "kindness" and "kindness". "Love" refers to admiration and yearning for the most important things. According to this Japanese logic, Iason's feelings for Riki should not only include "exclusive desire", but also "kindness". So when he saw that Riki was suffocating in the upper class life, although he didn't want Riki to leave him, he still arranged for Riki to go out to work. "Jian" released a music CD called "Sympathy".

Compared to Iason, Riki seems to be passive and unwilling. But after careful study, I found that he was actually in a state of "love" (at least in the later stages). People often feel moved when faced with a beautiful body, trembling with joy and sorrow at the same time. This emotion is a typical love emotion.

That's why Riki gnashed his teeth in front of Iason and shouted, "Sooner or later I'm going to kill you," but at the same time couldn't resist what Iason did.

"philia" love is not shown much in "Jian". Probably only the relationship between Riki and Guy embodies some degree of "philia". If we had to search again, Iason and Raoul's friendship could be considered "philia".

Before Riki met Iason, she maintained an "erōs" love with Guy. And when he left Iason and returned to the slums, his relationship with Guy turned into "philia" love. Maybe Guy was not willing to accept this transformation, but he finally figured it out and said, "It doesn't matter if you can't be my Riki, but don't be that guy's!". At this time, he no longer had any "desire" requirements for Riki, and his feelings had been elevated to Platonic spiritual love. Love often involves fighting against disillusionment and dreams. Erōs is like a dream, it always longs to be integrated with truth, goodness and beauty, but this is a permanent extravagance and contains a tragic color. True love often leads to love death and tragic endings. At this time, what affects our hearts is not simply the outcome of death, but our awareness that the structure of love determines that it must be connected with death (this is particularly obvious in the animal kingdom, where males often mate with females after be eaten). Therefore, the physical destruction of Iason and Riki resulted in spiritual eternity.

The last thing to emphasize is that "equality" is very important to "love". The unequal status of Riki and Iason determines that they cannot open their hearts and be together without restraint. Only death allows them to discover true equality. This can be explained by the phenomenon of human equality: 1. In fact, people are dependent on others for their existence in a sense, and they themselves are not independent in the true sense; 2. In fact, people are To die, as long as it is a human being, it is a non-absolute existence; thirdly, human beings are existences that cannot rely on themselves alone, but must be established through love and complementation. In layman's terms: 1. People are equal in "existence"; 2. People are equal in "death"; 3. People are equal in "needs". These three points point out the equality of people in the true meaning.