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Medea [electronic resource] : Myth and Unconscious Fantasy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Psychoanalysis & women seriesPublication details: London : Karnac Books, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9788491051152
  • 8491051155
  • 9781782414001
  • 1782414002
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medea : Myth and Unconscious Fantasy.DDC classification:
  • 150.2 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.4.F45 M43 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE On the Medea fantasy; CHAPTER TWO The ever present tragedy of Medea: women's attack on their own creativity; CHAPTER THREE The age-old myth of Medea and the Medea of Lars von Trier: the story of a woman's love and compassion rejected; CHAPTER FOUR Medea: maternal ambivalence; CHAPTER FIVE Female destructiveness in fairy tales and myths; CHAPTER SIX Sister fantasy and sisterly love.
CHAPTER SEVEN Conflicts around having two mothers: an interview study with a Finnish war childCHAPTER EIGHT On the psychology of love; INDEX.
Summary: This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in age-old myths, and many modern works about Medea reflect our ever-present interest in such myths. The Danish film director T.H. Dreyer had plans to produce a film about the story of Medea, while his countryman Lars von Trier did in fact make his own version of Medea, based on Dreyer`s previous work on the theme. In this remarkable new book the `Medea fantasy is introduced as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that may form an unrecognized and dissociated pa.
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE On the Medea fantasy; CHAPTER TWO The ever present tragedy of Medea: women's attack on their own creativity; CHAPTER THREE The age-old myth of Medea and the Medea of Lars von Trier: the story of a woman's love and compassion rejected; CHAPTER FOUR Medea: maternal ambivalence; CHAPTER FIVE Female destructiveness in fairy tales and myths; CHAPTER SIX Sister fantasy and sisterly love.

CHAPTER SEVEN Conflicts around having two mothers: an interview study with a Finnish war childCHAPTER EIGHT On the psychology of love; INDEX.

This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in age-old myths, and many modern works about Medea reflect our ever-present interest in such myths. The Danish film director T.H. Dreyer had plans to produce a film about the story of Medea, while his countryman Lars von Trier did in fact make his own version of Medea, based on Dreyer`s previous work on the theme. In this remarkable new book the `Medea fantasy is introduced as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that may form an unrecognized and dissociated pa.

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