Cupid Cupid comes under many guises. As the Roman god of Love, he’s the son of Venus. The 2nd century Latin writer Apuleus portrays him in The Golden Ass as the lover of Psyche.
Psychologists have written much on the relationship between Cupid and Psyche. In Jungian archetypal psychology Psyche is seen as the cold, somewhat icy soul in need of a “shattering” or “melting” from the warm and sensitive Cupid. Cupid on the other hand risks being utterly destroyed if Psyche’s gaze is not tempered with some degree of love.
When Cupid and Psyche are successfully united they represent a fruitful union, perhaps like the Yin and Yang, of love and knowledge or affection and wisdom.
In art Cupid is usually depicted naked and winged with bow and arrow and a boyish or cherub-like countenance.
In folklore, Cupid, like the Indian kama, afflicts human beings with a “dart to the heart,” causing them to fall in love or be filled with desire for another person. He is paralleled by the Greek god Eros. » Hephaestus, Vulcan
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