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Plato and Sex

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2640-6
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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

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