Lilith and Medea
Mothers of the Vindictive Woman Figuration
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Lilith, Medea, Vindictive Woman, Figuration, FeminismAbstract
The aim of this article is to introduce Lilith and Medea as the archetypal vindictive woman figuration, which circulates more frequently and intensely in the English nineteenth century. Based on the notion of figuration (BRAIDOTTI, 1994) and on texts on feminism (WOOLF, 1929; BRAIDOTTI, 2004; PAREDES; GUZMÁN, 2014), we think of these two characters and their constant representations in Western imagination over time as, in fact, mothers and models of a certain female complaint that accompanies us, we can conclude, from Creation. Thus, it is our objective to discuss the myths of Lilith and Medea in order to present them as figurations that give body both to characters that succeed them and to our claims.
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