Motif
Love as healer and reconciler
love_as_healer_and_reconciler
A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family, within the sub-family Beloved Imagery and Poetry. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Symposium Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 593-675 confidence: high
Eryximachus treats Love as the good physician, extends love and strife to body and mind, explains harmony of opposites as harmony after discord, and summarizes Love as harmony in soul, body, heaven, and earth.
Love is called the good physician by Eryximachus and mediator and reconciler of divided human nature in the account of Aristophanes.
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