In Psyche and Eros, Gisela Labouvie-vief describes historical and current concepts of mind and development, drawing from disciplines as diverse philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, and psichology.
She then presents a powerful theory of the maturing of mind, which brings together her empirical work and her exploration into mythology. The classical Greek myth of the gods Psyche and Eros serves as an evocative illustration of the author's thesis that rationality (logos) and imagination (mythos) are two complementary dimensions of the maturing mind.