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Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been in robust conversation with Greek mythology and philosophy. Modern psychoanalytic theories developed in sustained dialogue with mythology and philosophy, mediated in no small part by Sigmund Freud’s reading of the Greeks. While more contemporary psychoanalysis has largely amended this Freudian dependence on the interpretation of Greek myth and philosophy, the advances made by Freud Continue Reading … The post Lovesick: Erōs and Melancholia in Plato...