MEDEIA: para além do mito, uma mulher em atos

PARA ALÉM DO MITO, UMA MULHER EM ATOS

Abstract

This research aims at to trace the feminine field for psychoanalysis from the Lacanian aphorism "The woman does not exist". Through bibliographical research on the works of Freud and Lacan, the author sought to elucidate the reason mythical representation sheds light on the mad acts of women in their love relationships, although not entirely out of their minds. Subsidized by the tragic art, based on Freud's reference to women as “the dark continent of psychoanalysis,” femininity reaches its position in the field of Jouissance beyond the phallic norm, having as protagonist Medea, in Lacan's seminars. Tragic heroine, Medea presents the excess beyond the limits of culture, which can only be unveiled through poetry that conceals the horror that presents itself there. The act of Medea goes beyond motherhood and reaches the core of the terror to be lived by Jasão. Drawing on the historical materiality of Medea, would this be the same horror experienced by Gide – a French writer from the early 20th century – in the act of his beloved, Madeleine, when burning his letters of love and work that would consecrate him beyond his death. Madeleine, like many real women, points to the mythical Jouissance of Medea, being defined by Lacan as "a true woman in her entirety as a woman."