Medea by Euripides: psychic constructions for preverbal experiences and traumas.

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  • Author(s): Manolopoulos S;Manolopoulos S
  • Source:
    The Psychoanalytic quarterly [Psychoanal Q] 2015 Apr; Vol. 84 (2), pp. 441-61.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0226661 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2167-4086 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00332828 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Psychoanal Q Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: 2018- : [Philadelphia, PA] : Taylor & Francis
      Original Publication: New York [etc.] Psychoanalytic Quarterly, inc.
    • Subject Terms:
      Drama* ; Language Development* ; Metaphor* ; Psychoanalytic Interpretation* ; Psychological Trauma*; Humans
    • Abstract:
      The author introduces Euripides's Medea as a metaphor of the psyche's attempt to express and symbolize preverbal, unrepresented experiences and wounds visited upon it before there was any word for trauma. He suggests that Medea, the wild foreigner whose murderous magic is unleashed when the facilitating environment betrays her, could be thought of psychoanalytically as the deepest uncharted realms of primitive, traumatized existence yearning to find a way to represent itself on the stage of language and reality. Euripides can help us understand this deep realm of the psyche, with which psychoanalysis also grapples; he presents the realization of an object that traumatically fails to contain preverbal elements and transform them.
      (© 2015 The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Inc.)
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Euripides; Greek tragedy; Preverbal trauma; deus ex machina; hallucinatory realizations; infanticide; language; primitive elements; psychic constructions
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20150417 Date Completed: 20160111 Latest Revision: 20150416
    • Publication Date:
      20231215
    • Accession Number:
      10.1002/psaq.12008
    • Accession Number:
      25876542