* Offers nuanced, non-traditional readings of Plato
* Builds upon the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary Continental thought more broadly
* Addresses a major gap in the literature, one which has been perpetuated down through the centuries; a gap caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist, a doctor of the human soul