ABSTRACT
The methodological guiding principle of good Eros is to be complemented, following the spirit of Plato’s work, with a series of similar principles. These include, and prominently, beauty, a central and by no means marginal issue for Plato. Alchemy is a proto-technique for approaching, miming, subverting, subjecting, dissecting, assimilating, and reconstructing. It is a technique for leaching the whole of Eros, splitting it into two and appropriating its destructive, acquisitive part for its own interests. The aim of alchemy, and its heir, technology, is to dissect ever more objects and thus to possess ever more souls, and Eros is the best means to reach such ends. The trickster is unreality and absurdity itself, thus producing evil, whenever it is irresponsibly set in motion, whether by yielding to its incommensurable attraction or by resisting it.
