Psychoanalysis posits that the thing we want is not really the thing we want. The theory seeks to uncover our hidden desires and expose their roots so as to understand our behavior towards others and ourselves. Psychoanalysis is probably the closest of the theories we’ve explored in this class to Plato’s The Symposium because both are mostly about desire.
Using either Žižek’s or Jung’s text, answer the following:
What can we learn if we read The Symposium with a psychoanalytical theoretical framework?
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