Plato and SexISBN: 978-0-7456-2640-6
Hardcover
224 pages
September 2010, Polity
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Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 Sex and Genos (Republic) 11
2 The Origin of Sex: Aristophanes, Freud and Lacan (Symposium) 41
3 ‘Eros’ and ‘Sexuality’, Plato and Freud (Symposium) 71
4 ‘I, a Man, am Pregnant and Give Birth’ (Symposium) 98
5 Of Gods and Men: The Natural Beginning of Sex (Timaeus) 128
Coda: The Idea of ‘Sex’ 157
Notes 166
Bibliography 198
Index 207