ABSTRACT
Game of Thrones is read as depicting the unconscious backlash against the fight for female equality. Although some believe that this popular series depicts how powerful women gain power by the end, what really happens is that the revolt of the female is pathologized and contained through an ironic depiction of gender conflict. Moreover, by playing out current culture wars through the depiction of a fictional Medieval period, the show is able to both say and unsay the same thing in a doubled, self-reflexive discourse. A key to this interpretation will be the revelation of a hidden centrist fear of the maternal super-ego as the destructive nature of toxic masculinity and Neoliberal market fundamentalism is projected onto female characters.
