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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
January 2025
Drug Research Program, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
Int J Psychoanal
April 2024
Professor Emeritus, The University of London, London, UK.
Freud's very brief 1922 paper on the beheading of Medusa by Perseus wisely concludes with a call for a further examination of the sources of the legend. A now widespread interpretation of this legend is based (often without acknowledgement) on an addition to traditions concerning Medusa made in Ovid's . It is argued here that this Ovidian innovation has often been misinterpreted, and that a more careful reading of supports neither a widely alleged exclusively vengeful portrayal of Medusa, nor Freud's portrayal of Medusa's decapitation as a pitiable and terrible symbol of castration.
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September 2021
Department of Earth Sciences and CIPHCN-Heritage Centre, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain.
Here we report the discovery of ceramic fragments that form part of a Gorgoneion, a ceramic image representation of the Gorgon Medusa. The fragments were found in a deep part of Gorham's Cave, well known to ancient mariners as a natural shrine, between the 8th and 2nd century BCE. We discuss the context of this discovery, both within the inner topography of the cave itself, and also the broader geographical context.
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December 2018
Department of Neurosurgery, Adnan Menderes University School of Medicine, 09100, Aydın, Turkey.
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