Abstract

CAMPISTA, Valesca do Rosário  and  CALDAS, Heloisa Fernandes. Medeia: devastating love. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2017, vol.29, n.2, pp. 173-192. ISSN 0103-5665.

The feminine is the black continent, the great enigma surrounding psychoanalysis, either by the phallic path as Freud (1933/1990) formulated along his work, or by that which extrapolates the phallus, pointing beyond, as Lacan (1973/1985) demonstrated in his teaching. The aim of this paper is to reflect on issues that concern the feminine and the narcissism by establishing connections between love and the position of the female subject at the loss of the love object. Along the article, we turn to literature, more specifically, to Euripides’ Greek tragedy Medea, as a nodal point of the feminine since the heroine of the tragic drama portrays a reviled figure, close to so many current women whose drive-oriented voracity and jouissance overflows the boundaries of the phallus. With this article, we hope to contribute to reflections on the female position not only in Greek literature, but also within the contemporary devastation of the feminine.

Keywords : narcissism; feminine; love; devastation; jouissance.

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