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43:. A mute, paralysed fury responds to the danger of the obliteration of an individual consciousness by an external Other (and perhaps by the corresponding internalised desire to obliterate the subjectivity of others in turn). 272: 325: 58:
uses the Medusa Complex to refer to a self-destructive early state of inwardly directed aggression produced by a disruption of the mother/child mutual gaze.
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in a state of petrified fear. She also saw it as the possible by-product of a conflict between an idealised,
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revolving around the petrification or freezing of human emotion, and drawing on the classical myth of the
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Shakespeare's Spiral: Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting
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to cover the feeling of petrification induced by the threat of the parental
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saw the Medusa Complex as a dissociated state produced by paralysis of the
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The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioural Science
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The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
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Craighead, W. Edward; Nemeroff, Charles B., eds. (2004-04-19).
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Later writers have developed Bachelard's idea in various ways.
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state and the actual reality of one's feelings and emotions.
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Index

complex
Medusa
Gaston Bachelard
gaze
Attachment theory
Marion Woodman
fight-or-flight response
perfect
Marjorie Garber
Macbeth
gender trauma
Francois-Xavier Gleyzon
Shakespeare's
King Lear
Bruno Bettelheim
Gargoyle
Golem
Louis MacNeice
Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
Sophie Calle
ISBN
9780471220367
Waltzing with Medusa
Shakespeare's Spiral: Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting
The Medusa Complex
Categories
Psychoanalytic terminology
Analytical psychology
Complex (psychology)
Medusa

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