TY - BOOK AU - Boehringer,Sandra TI - The force of Eros. Gender and erotic fluidity in a society before sexuality PY - 2019///. N1 - 63 N2 - An analysis of the ways in which individuals are led to recognise themselves as subjects of desire presents a strong contrast between our modernity and ancient societies. In the 6th century before J.C., in Greece, the work of Sappho highlights the importance given to the erotic impulse and not to the sex of the loved person. It is on this transgender dimension of archaic Eros that Plato draws to construct Aristophanes’ speech in the Symposium, a passage cited by Freud in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-de-psychanalyse-2019-5-page-1555?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -