Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
Modern Cultural and Media Studies

Medea’s Decision

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  • David Maziashvili
David Maziashvili
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.17.2024.8801

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Medea,
  • Aleksidze,
  • Euripides,
  • Jung,
  • contemporary ballet

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to find out common characteristics between the work of Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung and Contemporary Georgian choreographer Mariam Aleksidze’s latest contemporary ballet Medea (staged according to Medea by Euripides; Premiere held on 14 May 2024 in Tbilisi, Georgia). Research shows that Carl Jung’s Psychology and Alchemy had a great influence on Aleksidze’s Medea, which is expressed in the main character’s psychological portrait. Aleksidze uses Jungian interpretations of dreams and phases of the alchemical process to show Medea’s spiritual state.

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