Abstract

The following essay aims to make an analytical approach to the myth of Medea from the herme-neutics of psychoanalysis in feminist perspective. It is also an invitation to think the archetypal figure of Medea as a metaphor for social change and transformation of androcentric paradigm. Nowadays, this paradigm is installed with greater force into the generation of women, to which I belong. In that sense, this essay constitutes an attempt to review the text of Euripides from the psychoanalytic hermeneutic examination of female subjectivity. The main emphasis is on the critique of a culturally accepted principle: the gender complementarity, which establishes and places man as the subject and woman as the object.