The following essay aims to make an analytical approach to the myth of Medea from the hermeneuticsof psychoanalysis in feminist perspective. It is also an invitation to think the archetypalfigure of Medea as a metaphor for social change and transformation of androcentric paradigm.Nowadays, this paradigm is installed with greater force into the generation of women, to whichI belong. In that sense, this essay constitutes an attempt to review the text of Euripides fromthe psychoanalytic hermeneutic examination of female subjectivity. The main emphasis is onthe critique of a culturally accepted principle: the gender complementarity, which establishesand places man as the subject and woman as the object.
Keywords:
gender studies, Greek myths, feminist psychoanalysis, subjectivity, social imaginary
Pavez Verdugo, P. (2012). Medea at the crossroads. Between self-affirmation and self-sacrifice: a metaphor of the female subjectivity in conflict. Revista Punto Género, (2), Pág. 183 – 198. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2012.28370
