Medea - Myth and Unconscious Fantasy

List of contents

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Introduction -- On the Medea fantasy -- The ever present tragedy of Medea: women’s attack on their own creativity -- The age-old myth of Medea and the Medea of Lars von Trier: the story of a woman’s love and compassion rejected -- Medea: maternal ambivalence -- Female destructiveness in fairy tales and myths -- Sister fantasy and sisterly love -- Conflicts around having two mothers: an interview study with a Finnish war child -- On the psychology of love

About the author

Esa Roos was born in Helsinki in 1942, where he graduated in psychology in 1971. After training in psychoanalysis (1971-1975) he became Assistant in the Department of Psychology in the University of Helsinki, whilst also working in forensic psychology in both a mental hospital and state prison. He has trained candidates from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Russia, and lectures in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Spain, France and the USA. He is currently a consultant and supervisor at various institutions in Finland.

Summary

This book introduces the Euripides' Medea fantasy as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that forms an unrecognized part of the self-representation. It is addressed to people who are interested in womanhood, its fortunes and misfortunes, creativity and destructiveness.

Product details

• Authors: ROOS, Esa Roos
• Assisted by: Esa Roos (Editor), Roos Esa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367323158
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32315-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Women Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Culture and Psychoanalysis