Violence and Women

<p>The archetypal story of Medea is a cautionary tale for our era.  Jason and Medea’s marriage favored by the gods represents an attempt at a union of opposites very far from each other.  They represent the <em>masculine </em>and <em>feminine</em> principles covering a wide range of psychological sociological and historical aspects.  This synthesis fails. In the myth as Euripides presents it the failure is caused by Jason’s regression and submission to the exclusivity of the patriarchal principle — the Old King.  Medea who not only represents the <em>feminine</em> but also the forces of Nature and Transformation is profoundly incompatible with this regression.  She reacts!  She destroys and creates havoc.  This is what the unconscious does when it is not heard or denied.  In the end Medea is saved by the gods the divine principles or psychic laws that regulate the laws of Nature and Transformation in the <em>psyche</em>.  They support her to the bitter end.</p><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><p><em>Preface </em></p><p><strong>PART ONE </strong></p><p>Introduction </p><p>The Medea Rage </p><p>The Myth of Medea </p><p>Euripides: Medea </p><p><strong>PART TWO </strong></p><p>Historical and Cultural Background </p><p>Euripides' Place in Greek Theatre in Fifth Century BC </p><p>The Truth of Medea for the Greeks </p><p>The Universality of Medea's Truth </p><p><strong>PART THREE </strong></p><p>Edith </p><p>Jason </p><p>Medea & Jason </p><p>The Poet and the Women </p><p>Concluding Remarks </p><p><em>Epilogue </em></p><p><em>Bibliography </em></p><p> </p><p> </p>