The impossibility of forgiveness: Shame fantasies as instigators of vengefulness in Euripides' Medea

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 437-464

  Lansky, Melvin R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; FANTASY; FORCE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORALITY; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SHAME; SOCIAL ASPECT; THINKING;

EID: 21344464943     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00030651050530021701     Document Type: Article

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