Plato’s philosophy of love is fleshed out in the Phædrus and Symposium. Like many Greeks of his era and social standing, he is much more interested in the pederastic desire that can exist between an ...
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.