A fixed destiny weighs on seduction. For religion seduction
was a strategy of the devil, whether in the guise of witchcraft
or love. It is always the seduction of evil - or of the world. It
is the very artifice of the world . Its malediction has been unchanged
in ethics and philosophy, and today it is maintained
in psychoanalysis and the `liberation of desire.' Given the
present-day promotion of sex, evil and perversion, along with
the celebration of the ofttimes programmatic resurrection of
all that was once accursed, it might seem paradoxical that seduction
has remained in the shadows - and even returned thereto
permanently.