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	Podcast:		The Partially Examined Life
	Episode:		Ep. 266: Jonathan Lear's Plato: Psyche and Society (Part One)
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:56:39
	Publish Date:		2021-03-29 08:00:00
	Description:		On essays from Lear's Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul (1988): "Inside and Outside the Republic," "Eros and Unknowing: The Psychoanalytic Significance of Plato’s Symposium," and "An Interpretation of Transference," which compares Socrates' questioning with psychotherapy. Is Plato's analogy between mind and state in The Republic a good one? What can we learn from it about what makes for a stable, healthy character? How does eros (desire) fit into this picture? Lear gives a creative, helpful reading of Plato informed by psychoanalysis. Part two of this episode is only going to be available to you if you sign up at partiallyexaminedlife.com/support. Get it now or listen to a preview. Sponsors: Get $200 off a mattress and two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/PEL. Get 50% off The New Yorker and a free tote bag at NewYorker.com/PEL. See headspace.com/PEL for a free month's access to a library of guided meditations. Learn about St. John's College at SJC.edu.
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