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Gerasimos Santas's Plato and Freud: Two Theories of Love is an important book. It is an analysis of the essential ideas regarding love put forth by two figures, both archetypal, but with respect to different, and disparate, fields: philosophy and psychoanalytic psychology. Despite a history of continuous cross-fertilization, these domains of investigation remain separated by a wide gulf. Freud rejected the philosophical mode of inquiry for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was his belief—one still held by many in both philosophy and psychoanalysis (including some who are very knowledgeable about both domains)—that philosophical thinking cannot encompass the Freudian unconscious. There are, however, indications that some researchers have begun to question this claim to look to a closer alliance between the two domains. On the other hand, while the author does not commit himself on the general issue of the interrelation of philosophy and psychology, he does state his view that nothing even “remotely resembling” (p. 164) the unconscious can be found in the Platonic corpus. Moreover, in the all-important seventh chapter, “The Two Theories of Love Compared,” the author concludes not surprisingly, that the theories of love proffered by Plato and Freud are radically incompatible. Indeed, inasmuch as it presents the two theories of love in separate sets of chapters—one through four for Plato and five and six for Freud—this book is both symptomatic, and a reproduction, of the gulf separating the two domains. Thus, the importance of Santas's book does not lie in its pointing to a new direction in the relation between Freud and Plato or in the relation between philosophy and psychoanalysis. (I do not intend to suggest that these pairs are strictly coextensive or analogous.)