Sexuality
- Civilization and Its DiscontentsCivilization and Its Discontents
This extended essay examines the conflict between human desires and the demands of living together. A comparison with Rome imagines the mind as a city where every past building still stands.
- SymposiumSymposium
Guests at an Athenian drinking party give speeches about love in this philosophical dialogue. Aristophanes tells a strange story of humans split in two, each searching for a missing half.