Some contemporary critics believe that Hopkins's suppressed erotic impulses played an important role in the tone, quality and even content of his works.

Does he merge with his double, the erotic impulse merging with the murderous?

The original reasoning was that contact between the sexes should not arouse erotic impulses, rabbis say.

The erotic impulses are then, for the author, interpreted as the foundation for the ethical condition of man.

The delicious and frustrating erotic impulse was threatened.

This could prevent the client from attending to his or her own erotic impulses, thereby keeping them out of awareness.

For Plato the erotic impulse, if properly tamed, is creative rather than destructive.

The erotic impulse also led to new forms of knowledge.

"Paradise Hotel," however, is his baldest consideration of the erotic impulse.

Her politics would seem to be tied to her erotic impulses.