Medea's Mirror: The Demanded Rehabilitation of Female Despair in Euripidean Tragedy

吳瑜雲(Yu-Yun Wu)

《淡江外語論叢》 16期 (2010/12) Pp. 1-24

https://doi.org/10.29716/TKSFLL.201012.0001

摘要

本文閱讀尤里庇狄思的悲劇《米蒂亞》，探討其承載的顛覆傳統體系與黑暗性思維。文中擬自黑格爾之瘋癲理論與古希臘男性霸權下女性的邊緣生存兩層面，來分析蠻女米蒂亞陷入摯戀執著，潛入原始本性來抗衡讓自己痛不欲生之異己，進而經歷了「雙重雙重性」。本文揭示米蒂亞以瘋癲之抗議爲生存策略，作爲必要之心靈修復。

關鍵字

尤里庇狄思 ； 米蒂亞 ； 絕望意識 ； 陰騭本性 ； 心靈修復

並列摘要

This paper examines the aberrant propensity and nocturnal penchant of the Greek tragedian Euripides, who imbues Medea with a female Gestalt of despair, the darkening soul, and demanded therapy. Drawing from the polarized ideology of Greek gender protocols, and with reference to the Hegelian anatomy of madness, this article analyzes Medea as a woman outsider who encounters the encroaching and patriarchal Others of externality, unbudgingly clings to an engrossed pathos, reverts back to ”the feeling soul”, and commits herself to experiencing ”a double doubleness”. While applauding the poet's naked expression of female protest, this essay concludes that Euripides represents Medea's self-empowered defiance and ”barbarian” madness as a healing stratagem to enunciate the absolute demands of her self-identity, wish fulfillment, and required rehabilitation.

並列關鍵字

Euripides ； Medea ； despair ； the feeling soul ； rehabilitation

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