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This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa--the archetypical snake-woman--have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame.The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids--from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara--and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.

Medusa (Greek mythology) --- Women --- Serpents --- Mythology. --- Medusa

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Caravaggio --- Medusa [Mythological character]

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"Focusing on the recurring metaphor of Medusa's head, The Medusa Effect examines images of horror in texts by Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a series of Victorian artists and critics writing about aesthetics. Through nuanced and innovative readings of canonical works by Freud, Nietzsche, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, A.C. Swinburne, and George Eliot, Thomas Albrecht demonstrates the twofold nature of these writers' images of horror. On the one hand, the analysis illuminates how the representation of something seen as horrifying - for instance, a disturbing work of art, an existential insight, or a recognition of the fundamental inaccessibility of another person'sconsciousness - can serve a protective purpose, to defend the writer in some way against the horror he or she encounters. On the other hand, the representations themselves can be a potential threatepistemologically unreliable, for instance, or illusory, deceptive, fundamentally unstable, and potentially dangerous to the writers. Through a psychoanalytically informed literary analysis, The Medusa Effect explores crucial ethical and epistemological questions of Victorian aesthetics, as well as underexamined complexities of the mechanisms of Victorian literary representation."--BOOK JACKET.

Horror --- Medusa (Greek mythology) --- Psychoanalysis

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Comparative religion --- Iconography --- Medusa [Mythological character]

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Medusa presents a new and different look at the myth of Perseus and Medusa and its interpretation. Starting with a look at the nature of myths and a recounting of the story, the book looks at the myth and explanantions which have arisen to explain it.

Mythology, Greek. --- Greek mythology --- Medusa --- Μέδουσα --- Medousa --- Méduse --- 메두사 --- Медуза --- Meduza --- 美杜莎 --- Meidusha --- Meduzo --- Medwsa --- Meadúsa --- מדוזה --- Meduzah --- Madusa --- メドゥーサ --- Medusa (Greek mythology) --- Medusa (Gorgon)