Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Adriana Maria Nagalli de. Psychoanalysis and mythology: Iphigenia (1977). J. psicanal. [online]. 2018, vol.51, n.94, pp. 255-260. ISSN 0103-5835.

Mythology and Psychoanalysis connect with one another, especially when it comes to their discourse on the issues of the anguish and the tragedy of the human condition. Both Mythology and Psychoanalysis deal with the representation of unconscious aspects of the mind. In this paper, we develop this theme through a brief analysis of the movie Iphigenia, which tells the story of Greek tragedy. Iphigenia is a Greek movie, directed by Michael Cacoyannis. It centers on the tragedy of Iphigenia, the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. Agamemnon was the commander of the troops of Troy, and Clytemnestra was Orestes's and Electra's sister. Inspired by the content of the movie, we wonder if we all would not be, to a certain extent, characters of a myth; characters, who live with the tension of dealing with our contradictions. Mythology and Psychoanalysis come close to each other as they understand anguish as typical of the human condition that reveals the raw material with which we weave our lives.

Keywords : Psychoanalysis; myths; Iphigenia; tragedy.

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