Medea

About this episode

This episode analyzes the story of Medea and her embodiment of the Death Mother archetype.

We analyze the story of Medea and her embodiment of perhaps the most disturbing archetype - the Death Mother. *Content warning: Infanticide* Story begins | 8:32 Story ends | 26:25 This episode we will be reading from Medea , by Euripides (Translated by Rex Warner). The following is also referenced in this episode: The Death Mother as Nature's Shadow: Infanticide, Abandonment and The Collective Unconscious - by Daniella Sieff Our intro/outro music a sample of Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo , by Lina Palera, under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. You can find the full version at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FreeMusicArchive.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Email: jungianeverafter@gmail.com Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/GEdn4TPgHR⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/jungianeverafter

People in this episode

Hosts: Raisa Cabrera, Dr. Adina Davidson

Topics covered

• Medea
• Death Mother archetype
• infanticide
• Euripides
• collective unconscious
• archetypes
• literary analysis

Keywords

• Medea
• Death Mother
• infanticide
• Euripides
• archetypes
• literary analysis
• collective unconscious

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FreeMusicArchive.org

Books & works: Medea, The Death Mother as Nature's Shadow: Infanticide, Abandonment and The Collective Unconscious