MEDEA AND JASON: A PERVERSE COUPLE? CLINICAL READING OF AN INFANTICIDE WITH REGARD TO THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PARENTAL COUPLE
As psychiatrist and psychologist in forensic psychiatry, we will present a patient followed in a forensic unit. By resuming her journey towards the criminal act, we will analyze it with regard to the functions of the myth and the history of Medea. Our discussion will revolve around psychopathological reflections specific to women perpetrators of infanticide, highlighting the paradoxes of femininity raised by the myth and the place of the man / woman couple. In this myth, what can the Medea-Jason couple represents of the perverse part in a loving relationship governed by issues of domination between the partners and how the outcome of such a relationship is doomed to a destruction of the bond or even the fruit of this relationship?