Medea
Subtitle: Myth and Unconscious Fantasy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781782202912
Subjects: Psychoanalysis
Description: 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.