MADELEINE AND MEDEIA: WOMEN BEYOND MATERNITY
Abstract
In the text ‘A juventude de Gide’, Lacan (1998a) compares Madeleine Gide, in her act of burning the letters of her husband, Andre Gide, to Medea. This act will be defined to the act of a true woman. We are interested to read this brief comment to capture the point from which Lacan defines the woman. Our hypothesis is that its starting point is not the genre, but the present unmeasured act in both. For psychoanalysis, sexuality comes always from an enigma order to the neurotic. Freud refers to the woman as a dark continent and confesses that his oedipal and phallic lens is not enough to meet the feminine mysteries. This interpretation leads him to the conclusion that maternity is the realization of femininity, par excellence. For Lacan, the true woman is in dissociation between the mother and the woman. From Miller writings about Madeleine and Medea, we propose to question what relationship he establishes between the unmeasured act of them, Medea and Madeleine, and the woman. To do so, we will address one by one.Downloads
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