evolving ideas about eros

My friend Dr. Kevin Boileau, who leads EPIS -- the existential psychoanalytic institute -- invited me onto his weekly radio show to talk about eros -- the history of this word, how ideas have evolved over time about eros, raising questions about ancient conceptions of eros in Plato's Symposium and modern ideas about the self in Heidegger's Being and Time.  We talked about Homer's use of the term, Hesiod's use, and later writers such as Pherecydes, Empedocles and Sophocles -- as the significance of the term eros develops from an abstract noun for sexual desire, to the name of a God, to a name for a powerful natural force that binds the universe together, to something that human beings experience oppositely -- as the source of life and harmony and as an overwhelming irrational force that steals our reason.  

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/epis-radio/2013/01/26/historical-roots-of-eros-and-ancient-greece

Pherecydes