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The long extract from Philodemus would appear worthy of quotation in a psycho-analytical connection. The psychical significance
of personal names, first pointed out by Stekel, is very familiar to psycho-analysts; Mr. J. C. Flügel, for instance, referred to it in elucidating the matrimonial vagaries of Henry VIII:
I fell in love with Demo of Paphos—and little wonder! The next time it was with Demo of Samos; and that, too, gave small cause for astonishment. My third love was once more a Demo—of Naxos—and the thing began to be serious. My fourth love was Demo of Argos. … Surely the Fates themselves put on me the name Philedemos, since a passion for a Demo ever holds me in its grip!