March 3, 2024

Freud’s interpretation in “Medusa’s Head” and some alternative psychoanalytic implications of Ovid’s Medusa

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Freud's very brief 1922 paper on the beheading of Medusa by Perseus wisely concludes with a call for a further examination of the sources of the legend. A now widespread interpretation of this legend is based (often without acknowledgement) on an addition to traditions concerning Medusa made in Ovid's

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B. J. Sokol (Sun,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e75efdb6db6435876d62e2 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2023.2255888

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