Medea: How aggression works for female subjugation

Authors

  • Monika Gsell Zürich, Psychoanalytikerin in eigener Praxis und zur Zeit mit einem vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanzierten Forschungsprojekt im Bereich der Gender Studies beauftragt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/212

Keywords:

Gewalt, Psychoanalyse, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

So far, gender studies have tended to thematise aggression not only as a destructive, misdirected force, but one that is regarded almost without exception as masculine. Slowly, though, understanding is growing that aggresion should be viewed in principle as a positive force that is vital for the process of gaining subjectivity and self-determination. This insight seems to have opened the potential to discuss femininity and aggression in new and fruitful ways. Roxana Hidalgos’s study of Medea is an instructive contribution to this discussion – especially/above all because the author neither asks nor answers the really tricky questions.

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Published

2003-11-01

Issue

No. 11 (2003): Aggression und Gewalt

Section

Schwerpunkt

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Copyright (c) 2003 Monika Gsell

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