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Diotima

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Diotima
prophetess, teacher of Socrates, speaks of an ideal love. [Gk. Lit.: Plato Symposium in Brewer Handbook]


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For example, the distinction Plato makes in the dialogue Symposium between crude or vulgar eros and heavenly or spiritual eros, first mentioned by Pausanias (who was willing, in Freud's words [see epigraph], to "honor even an inferior object") and embellished by the priestess Diotima (who was not willing), encourages us to relinquish sexual acts in personal relationships and focus, instead, on the moral and intellectual improvement of ourselves and our partners.
Plato first used this symbol of the In-Between in The Symposium when Socrates asks Diotima whether Eros, the psychic force that drives the soul to seek the divine, is a mortal or an immortal, and she replies, using the preposition metaxy, that Eros is neither but instead is in tension "between" them, partaking of both but not fully identifiable with either.
 
 
 
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