Norman O. Brown Quote

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.


Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition (ed. Univ of California Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780520910409


The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; ...

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; ...

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; ...

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; ...