La conception de la psychopathologie fondamentale

Wolf-Fédida, Mareike

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“…In 1973, Paris psychoanalyst and philosopher Pierre Fédida calls this the 'nostalgia of desire'. 29 Like Freud, Fédida mentions the 'complementary' couple only and he continues by cautioning against the 'bisexual [i.e. androgynous] illusion with which Aristophanes' myth has inflated itself'.…”

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Myth and Science around Gender and Sexuality: Eros and the Three Sexes in Plato's Symposium

Groneberg

2005

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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Even the lover of myth [philomythos] is in a sense a lover of wisdom [philosophos],For myth is composed of wonders. Aristotle 1Plato's Symposium contains some myths treating matters of gender and erotics, among them Aristophanes' tale of the three primordial sexes of mankind. The following text 2 interprets the role of this myth both within the context of the Symposium and in modern science and expounds how the concepts of the third sex and androgyny have been re-actualized by sexology and psychoanalysis since the 19th century. The similarities with the ancient positions demonstrate the pertinence and power of the myths' overall propositions. The differences seem to imply the effective presence of other myths of Judaeo-Christian origin. In any case, the ancient tensions between an Aristophanic and a Socratic attitude are still active. Along these lines, the conceptual relations of androgyny or the third sex with erotic preferences are clarified. Plato's SymposiumPlato's Symposium 3 contains seven encomia, i.e. speeches of praise. Six are on Eros, 4 one is on Socrates, and all contain mythological references, if not complete tales that may be considered myths in themselves. Symposia being men's drinking parties, Plato's Symposium depicts Athenian life at a very light-hearted moment in 416 BC. The worldly Agathon, a tragedian in his thirties, had invited some of the foremost Athenian citizens to his house in order to celebrate his first competition victory, gained the previous day. The guests have heavy heads from the public party on the eve, so they decide to drink moderately, send the flute-girl away, and deliver eulogies on Eros, a god neglected by poets and sophists (177a5-e5).

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Myth and Science around Gender and Sexuality: Eros and the Three Sexes in Plato's Symposium

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Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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La conception de la psychopathologie fondamentale

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Myth and Science around Gender and Sexuality: Eros and the Three Sexes in Plato's Symposium

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