When we use the word “Eros” today, we often invoke assumptions shaped more by psychoanalysis than by the ancient Greek god of love. Psychoanalytic thinkers have long been drawn to Plato’s Symposium.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper gives a new interpretation of the central section of Plato's Symposium (199d-212a). According to this interpretation, the term ...

Platonic love is named after the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who described this type of love in his work “Symposium.” He described platonic love as a feeling that strays away from the physical ...

EASTON — Forrest Hansen will use the round table approach to examining and discussing selections from one of Plato’s most well-known dialogues, “Symposium,” sometimes titled “The Drinking Party,” in a ...

Here’s a puzzle: Rebecca Newberg Goldstein has released a very solid and well-received book, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away. Half-dialogue, half-explanatory essay, practically ...

All of Plato's Symposium will be read in Greek, with related Platonic texts read in English. Classes will include close translation and reports on special topics. Emphasis will be on combining an ...

Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

Studies in the Novel has been published quarterly by the Department of English at the University of North Texas since 1969. Its aim is to present excellence in criticism of the novel in all periods, ...

The Symposium is a vivid, funny and moving dramatic dialogue in which a wide variety of characters - orators, doctor, comic poet, tragic poet, soldier-cum-statesman, philosopher and others - give ...