"Those periodic rituals for proper transgression: those where ‘under the charm of the Dionysian’, as Nietzsche first saw, the ‘nature which has become alienated’ celebrates ‘her reconciliation with her lost son’ (BT, 1)." – Dr Tim Themi, Eroticizing Aesthetics: In the Real with Bataille and Lacan (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), 22