Our unconscious fantasies can be embedded in the old-age myths. This book takes Euripides tragedy of Medea as its starting point. Many modern films and plays about Medea reflect our ever-present interest in the myths. The Danish film director T.H. Dreyer had plans to realize a film on story of Medea, while his countryman Lars von Trier made his own version of Medea, based on Dreyers previous work on the theme. In this remarkable new book, the Medea fantasy is introduced as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that may form an unrecognized and dissociated part of the...