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Medea

Esa Roos

2015208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Karnac Books · ENGISBN 9781781815328
  • 2015Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781782202912
  • 2015Karnac Books · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9781782414001
  • 2018Taylor & Francis Group · ENGISBN 9780429916151
  • 2018Taylor & Francis Group · ENGISBN 9780429901928
  • 2018Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780429477157
  • 2018Taylor & Francis Group · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780429930386
  • 2019Taylor & Francis Group · ENGISBN 9780367323158

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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