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Medea
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 part of the self-representation. The book describes how this can lead women to believe that their lovers (like Jason in the original myth) will deceive and abandon them, and that this anxiety might cause them to react violently towards their children. For such women it is imperative to forgo any creative femininity.
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On the psychology of love
The earliest development of narcissism takes place within the framework of maternal care. Alice Balint wanted to use the word primary love instead of primary narcissism. Ikonen states that “oedipal love is really a great, often the greatest, emotion in man’s life; our knowledge of true love is based upon this experience”. But one can ask how this is possible, when we consider that the original oedipal phase results in tragedy with a narcissistic wound. Real incest has nothing to do with oedipal love. Love as an affect is more often contrasted with hate than with fear. Love in psychoanalysis may have the same characteristics as in the love relationship of a couple, that is, identification and idealisation. Freud compares “the method used by Gradiva to cure the delusion of her childhood friend to psychoanalytic investigation, which is an attempt to free up repressed love. The power of the past carries within it a principle of cure”
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