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- Title
The Revival of the Ambivalent Mother Figure in Euripidean Medea: Güngör Dilmen's Kurban and Yüksel Pazarkaya's Mediha.
- Authors
Özyön, Arzu
- Abstract
Jungian mother archetype has a variety of representations including mother goddess, grandmother, witch and mother (in the simplest sense). As is seen in the examples Jungian mother archetype can manifest in different ways, both positive and negative. However, these positive and negative features may also appear in a single body, which explains Jungian mother archetype's having two opposite sides, both being a creator and a destroyer. In this context, this study analyses Euripides's Medea, Güngör Dilmen's Kurban and Yüksel Pazarkaya's Mediha comparatively, in relation to the idea of ambivalent mother figure based on Jung's mother archetype with its contradictory nature both as a loving and terrible mother. Although, the latter two plays have numerous similarities with Euripides's Medea, this study dwells on the idea of ambivalent mother figure specifically. Despite the fact that Kurban and Mediha have similar themes with Medea, such as the betrayal of the wife by the husband, the theme of revenge, and also a similar ending of the death of children at the hands of their mothers, the motives lying beneath the act of killing are mostly different from each other depending on different social conditions the three plays were produced in and their cultural backgrounds. Therefore, this study aims to search for the traces of these motives behind the act of killing of these three women.
- Subjects
ARCHETYPE (Psychology); MOTHERS; CHILD death; SOCIAL history; HUSBANDS; WIDOWS
- Publication
Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
2069-1025
- Publication type
Article