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1 online resource (209 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Psychoanalysis and Women Series
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Psychoanalysis & women series.
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| 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. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- Psychology.
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Women -- Psychology. |
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Archetype (Psychology)
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Archetype (Psychology) |
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Mythology, Greek -- Psychology.
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Mythology, Greek -- Psychology. |
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Mythology, Greek. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Roos, Esa. Medea : Myth and Unconscious Fantasy. London : Karnac Books, ©2015 9781782202912 |
| ISBN |
9788491051152 (electronic book) |
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8491051155 (electronic book) |
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9781782414001 (electronic book) |
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1782414002 (electronic book) |
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1781815321 |
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1782202919 |
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