{"product_id":"plato-freud-9780631159148","title":"Plato Freud","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is love? Why do we idealize those whom we love? How do we choose whom to love? Are some kinds of love better than others? Each age returns to these questions with renewed perplexity. Gerasimos Santas examinees the two greatest theoretical architectures of love, side by side. It provides a thorough critical description and comparison of these theories, allowing a sophisticated dialogue to emerge between the two thinkers.  \u003cp\u003eIn the first half of the book Professor Santas reconstructs and explains Plato''s theories of eros and philia: erotic love, familial love and friendship. He attempt to show that Plato''s was a unified theory in which erotic love has a special connecion with creativity and beauty. He then discusses Freud''s notion of love as distinct from, though based on, his general theory of sexuality. He discusses in detail Freud''s explanations, before and after narcissism, of idealization and choice of beloved. Freud too, it emerges, had a unified theory of love: all love \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Study of Love 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions about Love 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTerms of Love: Eros, Philia, Agape 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLimits of This Study 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Plato's Theory of Eros in the Symposium 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Preliminary Speeches: Eros all Good, Eros Good and Bad, Eros a Cosmic Force 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Speech of Aristophanes: Eros as Desire to Unite with One's Other Half 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Speech of Agathon: Good and Beautiful Eros is Eros of Beauty and Goodness 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Speech of Socrates: Introductory 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deficiency and Egoistic Models of Desire Applied to Eros 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneric Eros: Desire for the Good to be One's Own Forever 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpecific Eros: Desire to Create Offspring in Beauty for the Sake of Immortality 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ladder of Love: From Eros of a Beautiful Body to Eros of Beauty Itself 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeauty, Immortality and the Good 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Passionate Platonic Eros in the Phaedrus 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePleasure, Rationality and Eros as Human Madness 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEros as Divine Madness 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Phaedrus and the Symposium 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophic Eros in the Phaedo and the Republic 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Plato on Friendship and Familial Love 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship in the Lysis: Like to Like and Opposite to Opposite 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Neither Good nor Bad is Friend to the Good 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship and Familial Love in the Republic 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriendship as Sharing Knowledge and Desire for the Good 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Freud's New Theory of Sexuality 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Old and the New Concepts of Sexuality 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is Sexual? 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePsychosexual Development and the First Appearance of Love 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNormal Sexuality 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Freud's Theory of Love 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Central Thesis: All Love is Sexual in Origin 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Main Characteristics of Love: Exclusive Attachment and Overvaluation 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplanations of the Choice of Love-Object 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarcissistic Models of Object-Choice 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreud's Explanations of Overestimation 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarcissistic and Egoistic Love 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamilial Love, Friendship, and Sublimation 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove, Happiness, and Civilization 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Two Theories of Love Compared 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFreud's Own Comparisons to Plato 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Function of Love in Plato and Freud 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origin of Love in Plato and Freud 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSublimation and the Ladder of Love 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChoice and Overestimation 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlato and Freud 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: More Questions About Love 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 194\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403387806039,"sku":"9780631159148","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631159148.jpg?v=1730483315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plato-freud-9780631159148","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}