ABSTRACT
Taking Euripides’ Medea as a starting point, this chapter outlines a worrying area of the life of a couple when one of the two individuals abandons his or her own world to immerse him/herself in the other person’s world. Determined to make her man into a hero, Medea does not hesitate to help him steal her land’s treasure, kill her own mother’s son, sever all links with her past, and finally end up in her man’s highly civilised homeland, Hellas. Before appearing on the stage as a murderer, Medea has already sacrificed her creativity for Jason, has already killed her own “children” to live through his. The chapter aims to move from myth to analysis to highlight a specific aspect of female masochism characterised by tenderness and ferocity, violent aggressiveness and total dedication that thrives on the woman’s warfare against her own creativity.
