Search for Self in Other in Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre

Examines how Cicero, Ovid, Rousseau, Diderot and Sartre theorists recognized that searching for self in an idealized other can lead to a variety of perversions. This title addresses man's growing understanding of death of self in mirror of other across corridors of time from Narcissus' ancient pool, to Diderot's convent in "The Nun".